Strike by 45,000 dock workers threatens to stoke inflation just five weeks out from US presidential election.
Dockworkers shut down traffic at 36 ports on the US’s eastern seaboard, demanding better wages and job protections.
The country’s highest food inflation levels in decades have pushed businesses to shutter and forced many to go hungry.
The country’s clothes manufacturers are taking a beating from imported ‘preloved’ clothes and a struggling economy.