With unemployment low and wages rising, the struggle for basic necessities like food should be easing. But those on the front lines of feeding the hungry say they are seeing the opposite.
Inflation doesn’t account for things like ballooning housing costs, astronomical childcare costs, “shrinkflation” in food supplies, ridiculous amounts of revolving debt like credit cards, and un-dischargeable student loan debt.
Inflation doesn’t account for things like ballooning housing costs, astronomical childcare costs, “shrinkflation” in food supplies, ridiculous amounts of revolving debt like credit cards, and un-dischargeable student loan debt.