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Ms Ellis works full-time as a nurse’s assistant and has a second part-time job.
But she needs to economise. She has switched stores, cut out brand-name items like Dove soap and Stroehmann bread, and all but said goodbye to her favourite Chick-fil-A sandwich.
Still, Ms Ellis has sometimes turned to risky payday loans (short-term borrowing with high interest rates) as she grapples with grocery prices that have surged 25% since Mr Biden entered office in January 2021.
“Prior to inflation,” she says, “I didn’t have any debt, I didn’t have any credit cards, never applied for like a payday loan or any of those things. But since inflation, I needed to do all those things…I’ve had to downgrade my life completely.”
The leap in grocery prices has outpaced the historic 20% rise in living costs that followed the pandemic, squeezing households around the country and fuelling widespread economic and political discontent.
Didn’t you hear? The supreme court said the president is basically a king now /jk
No but real talk, you are right. People put way more importance on a presidential election than what it’s in reality. I mean, its super important, but he doesn’t drive the country like a fucking bus, it’s more like hes the admiral and the country is a fleet of ships that all need to be coordinating with one another.
If people want really change, then they need to put as much importance to local elections of all levels as they do for the presidential election… hell, maybe put slightly more importance to the local elections.