This region is suffering from some of the highest inflation in America. Here's how locals are surviving
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To make ends meet amid soaring inflation, one resident has been selling her gold jewelry and crushing aluminum cans to recycle for extra cash.
Duran has been receiving unemployment benefits and working part-time as a caregiver for a resident at a senior center. To make ends meet, she's also been selling her own gold jewelry and crushing aluminum cans to recycle for extra cash.
She's one of many people doing what they can to get by in Riverside, California, part of a region known as the Inland Empire -- which saw a 9.4% annual inflation rate in May, one of the highest in the nation. The average inflation rate across all US urban areas, as measured by the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index, was 8.6% for May.
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