The price of diapers has risen by 20%. Health care provider Amerigroup is helping N.J. families with young children by giving them away.
I still remember how much money I used to spend on diapers for my kids and I cringe. It really wasn’t all that long ago but the truth is if I had a baby now, I’d be spendingThanks to inflation, diapers — like so many other items — are much more costly. Disposable diaper prices have risen about 22% over the past year, according to the latest data from NielsenIQ. The retail analytics firm reports the price of cloth diapers has also risen by 13%.
For the past two weeks, the organization has been hosting a series of diaper giveaway events across the country. In N.J., she said, the group held eight “Diaper Day” events in different towns, including Englewood, Jersey City, and Perth Amboy — giving away more than 600 diapers. Brauner said the idea behind Amerigroup’s “Diaper Days” is simple: “to help the people in our communities who need them.”
By “here,” she means at a lively “Diaper Day” in Paterson last week, where Brauner and her Amerigroup crew were giving away two 25-diaper packs, in sizes newborn to 5, to parents who walked in with a smile and left with an even bigger one.“Diapers are just so incredibly expensive now that any help, anything like this, is so welcome,” she tells me while she holds her 9-month-old, a sweet and very squirmy baby boy named Ivan, in her arms.So, exactly how much do diapers cost now?, I ask her.
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