The vast majority of US adults are stressed about grocery costs, an AP-NORC poll finds
The vast majority of US adults are stressed about grocery costs, an AP-NORC poll finds
i got 2 bags of groceries at cub yesterday and it was 180$.
there was meat in there. sure. but like....damn.
Eat the rich. This solves two problems.
Sounds modest
Sensible, even
I like this proposal.
I pay between $75 - $150 a week for groceries as a single dude that only shops for himself. On a monthly basis that's my highest expense besides rent at about $300 - $400. That's how much my parents used to spend to shop for a family of 7 back in like 2010. The federal minimum wage back then was $7.25 an hour and even then it was still a struggle. And here we are 15 years later and the federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour.
Back when the federal minimum was raised to $7.25 you could still feed 3 people well at a cheaper restaurant for $15. Now I dont think you could feed one person well for $15 at any of the same kind of restaurant
A few days ago I saw a story of a woman making $3 an hour plus tips at waffle house, where the average tip is probably like $2 a person. In 2025. How the fuck is that woman surviving whatsoever? The amount of normal everyday hardworking people who will be impacted by the SNAP cuts is going to be enormous. Especially with everything quickly becoming 2x what it cost 6 months ago
Yeah, it's crazy working as a server now. $2.15/hour plus tips. You have to be somewhere that makes good tips. The law only guarantees that you will make at least $7.25/hour and the restaurant is supposed to pay you to that average only if tips don't get you to minimum wage.
I am in roughly the same boat.
$600 for rent + utils, cheapest, roach tier studio I could find, but I somehow lucked out and got a management team that, though they're not exactly flush with cash, they do genuinely give a damn about the stuff they can actually afford to handle, throw out the dipshit trouble maker types pretty quick.
So, slightly higher rent, but I manage to get my food costs down to roughly $250 a month, so its about the same total monthly spend.
But, yeah, holy fuck, if the min wage had kept up with housing costs, so an FT min wagie could afford a studio, 1/3 rent to income rule?
It'd be between $30 and $35 an hour.
That's how fucked this all is, the US median wage is roughly what the minimum wage should be, if you want a ... basically functioning society where 2/3rds (thats about the paycheck to paycheck % now) of people are not one disaster away from becoming homeless.
So, of course, instead, its now literally illegal to be homeless, and Trump wants to build concentration camps.
People are either gonna let this happen, or they're gonna ... perform an executive override on the situation.
Eggs are back at $7-10/dz in the Boston metro area :D
What’s your eggscuse this time, orangeboi
His excuse is he couldn’t give less of a fuck about you or any of the other poors. Somehow a billionaire supposedly cares about the same things we do
Oh I know. I am just curious how the cult is going to somehow spin this into being the fault of the “communist democrat an-tee-fuh Nazis”, because I’m sure they will try to.
Almost literally, the moment Trump was sworn in as president, the same exact folks who spent the prior 8 months of their lives blaming Biden for the high cost of eggs suddenly had an epiphany that the president does not directly control the price of eggs. And then when the president DID specifically and directly affect the price of groceries as a result of tariffs, those same people suddenly insist that grocery prices are based on complex and rapidly changing global socioeconomic phenomenon that cannot be predicted nor controlled and besides this is still Biden's economy because it was so broken that Trump hasn't been able to fix it yet (even though he promised to have it all sorted out in a timeline of days).
They live in a separate reality, void of fact and logic, and I honestly have not figured out a way to reason with that. As wiser folks have said much more eloquently than I could, you cannot reason people out of something they did not reason themselves into.
Its a death cult.
Just, full stop, MAGA is a death cult, same as Jim Jones or Heaven's Gate.
Big death cult? Popular death cult, takes over the government?
Fascism.
For all the sociological, political, economic complexities and nuance...
It really does basically just boil down to those being pretty much the same thing, at different scales.
Good luck reasoning with or expecting reason from death cult members.
They are the zombie apocalpyse, fucking broken brains, really only fully functional at the limbic level, the rest of the brain is a confused mush of near infinite levels of reality denial, motivated reasoning, and cognitive dissonance.
"Liberal California is making egg prices higher."
I wish I were kidding.
This has been going on for years. Keeps getting worse like everything else we depend on for a decent stable life but not to worry the White House is building a 200 million dollar ballroom.
the vast majority of US adults didn't vote against Trump
curious
They're getting what they voted for.
Unless they didn't and the tech billionaires got their money's worth.
Haha not me!
I'm old-money poor, grew up broke.
This is just a reversion to the mean.
All these fools thought they weren't poor this whole time, blew out the backs of their credit card balances with endless hot loads of usless garbage purchases... tch tch tch, not how you do it, doesn't end well.
Murikkkans: you made your bed now lie in it.
Signed: the Rest of the world
I guarantee you this is happening wherever you live, just in a different flavor.
The billionaires are parasites on the entire planet, not just the US.
Gettin tired posting the surprised pika face meme. Think I will take a break.
The plan is working
i would recommend just stop eating
Should have thought about that when every Democrat was telling you that Trump and his tariff plans and project 25 was going to screw the average American at the grocery store.
Sorry but Americans, including myself, get what we collectively voted for.
Please love yourself enough to realize that you don’t deserve collective punishment.