I'm struggling to find numbers because Google has been enshittified and will only show me local rental advertising, but, like, if I understand this the cost of food, since Biden took office, is up like 20%, and rent is up ~30%, medicine and childcare are still totally unaffordable, and everything else is much more expensive. Meanwhile wages are up like, idk, 20$ a week or something.

Cause, this all adds up to me as people are drastically poorer than they were four years ago, but the economics perverts on bsky insist people should kiss Biden's shoes because wages are up 4.3% and "The ecnonomy is good."

Can someone help with numbers I don't know how to convince a liberal that people need to eat food or they'll die.

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[–] abc@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

St Louis Fed has numbers for this but they're averages; good starting point anyways and a liberal will probably go awooga at it being a federal reserve bank's data lol.

Average Price: Eggs, Grade A, Large (Cost per Dozen) in U.S. City Average

Average Price: Milk, Fresh, Whole, Fortified (Cost per Gallon/3.8 Liters) in U.S. City Average

Average Price: Bread, White, Pan (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average

Actually you can go straight to the BLS source (consumer price index released monthly) but the St Louis Fed is probably the easiest place to see all that info at a glance & they even have it for commodities like the global price of uranium!!

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Thank you, this was very helpful!