It Costs the Average American an Hour of Work to Buy 10 Staple Groceries. In Some Countries, It Takes More Than 19 Days

Ten basic foods now cost more than a week of work in 11 of the 56 countries surveyed in a new Price Shocks report from World Vision, and nine of those 11 are in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Sudan, buying them takes 19.3 eight-hour workdays. In Myanmar, 10.1, and in Haiti, 9.5. In the Central African…