‘Biden has failed me’: at a Michigan soup kitchen, people are torn between Harris and Trump

At Saginaw city's biggest soup kitchen, most are hoping for a candidate who can usher in notable economic change

People on the east side of Saginaw city are more used to seeing buildings come down than go up. Bulldozers have erased houses, schools, department stores and factories over recent years as jobs disappeared and the population plummeted.

But builders will soon be at work in one corner of the Michigan city constructing a sprawling extension to Saginaw's largest soup kitchen after demand soared through the Covid-19 pandemic and then as rampant inflation hit a community where many people live on the edge financially.