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Food prices up 33% as Americans battle highest grocery price spike in 50 years — with no relief in sight (nypost.com)
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“While inflation has cooled from its peak, grocery prices have not returned to where consumers remember them,” Martin told The Post.

“Food prices have effectively reset to a permanently higher level after years of supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, transportation costs, and broad inflationary pressures,” he added.

Meanwhile the minimum wage hasn't been raised in almost 20 years. There's nothing that leads to revolution faster than hunger:

Every society is three meals away from chaos

-Vladimir Lenin

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[–] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When you put the entire population of folks that used to work the fields and man the meat processing plants into concentration camps and then lose a war that spikes food transportation costs, why would you expect anything less?
What did Trump say recently about his feelings about families struggling with higher costs of living?

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