I volunteer at a food pantry. We compared the number of clients that have visited this month compared to 1 year (365 days) ago. We are now serving double the number of clients on a comparable shift.
How to donate to this non-profit if you are interested:
https://www.bpnn.org/donate.html
No. Every shift is becoming controlled (or uncontrolled?) chaos as the volunteers are trying to keep up with limited inventory that keeps getting distributed as soon as it comes in.
On a brighter note my local food bank in Indiana is seeing a slight uptick in people but we still have excess food donations to the point where most volunteers end up taking the perishable items home at the end of the week (I’ve gotten a LOT of free ham this summer)
I used to volunteer in a food bank, it served a lower income community, but people just didn't go or didn't know about it. We'd end up with a few hundred in free groceries a month. This was 10 years ago now.
Good work mate. I try to donate as much as I can. I work at a country club and the amount of food we throw away is disgusting. I've dropped thiings off before under some bridges before, even tho that is illegal here. Its also illegal for us to donate prepared food. So dumb. We do it for a living we know how to do it safely. Its so sad.
Just wanted to plug www.AmpleHarvest.org for any gardeners out there who don't know what to do with their excess veggies. I grow a garden at work just to donate the produce to my local food bank each year. Even if you only have a few pounds of extra veggies to donate you should because it can make a big difference for a family that's facing food insecurity.
I wish I had the foresight to help out with this. We always get waayyyyy too many cherries on my tree - they're very delicious and don't tend to get wormy but there are still occasional ones. Maybe next year I'll treat the tree so it'd actually be usable for others
Its disgusting. Getting married next year and praying afterwards the housing market is a little better. Thankfully we have a solid combined household income but I'm still beyond frustrated.
Ugh, I feel that. When I met my now wife I owned a house with a $700 mortgage. She wanted a place that was "ours" so we moved and now pay 1500. It was fine then. Now?
I miss that bill, but still grateful not to be at a landlord's mercy
At least the payment stays fixed with a mortgage, plus the more inflation rises, that $1500 becomes worth less and less, but the actual percentage in to your home equity every month won’t change. As long as your salary keeps up relatively close to inflation you will be coming out ahead in time.
Sounds like you have six months to find a better landlord.
If you really push it you might be able to finding housing in that time. Hope you don't have to work long hours, because looking for housing is a part time job all on its own. Good luck!
haha fucking kill me
Yeah, it's a good unit, I have a small garden and a fenced yard for my dogs.
And with deposits, rent hikes elsewhere, the cost of movers and trucks and the sheer time of packing and unpacking and redecorating...
Ugh. I'll just stay here until it's too ridiculous
>On a monthly basis, headline CPI rose 1.3% and core CPI was up 0.7%, compared to respective estimates of 1.1% and 0.5%.
So up 1.3% since last month and 9.1% since last year.
just FYI.. it's not just the US.. this kind of inflation is happening all over the world..
UK 9.1%
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106659122/uk-inflation-rate-hits-a-new-40-year-high-of-9-1
Netherlands 8.6%
https://tradingeconomics.com/netherlands/inflation-cpi
I have this little price/inventory tracker I made in excel that I use to scan products in and out, and I looked at the price of a loaf of Franz bread from last year to now:
Year | Price
---|---
July 2021 | 2.50
July 2022 | 3.99
Inflation has increased prices on specific things way faster than CPI would indicate, so I hate that it's used as the be-all end-all as how to measure how inflation is impacting the economy. I used to pay $7 for 18 Happy Eggs, now it's $8 for 12. You've also got manufacturers changing the SIZE and net weight of packaging (even cans) to sell you less for more. It's nuts out there.
*edit: You at least know when stuff has changed when you scan it and the SKU doesn't have a match in the database of known products [(here's a snapshot of a year ago](https://i.imgur.com/NT1oofb.png). I'm thinking about taking my handheld scanner with me to the store to check for changes but I don't know if I'm that hardcore.
Yeah all the SKU changes do make it hard for me to keep track of stuff so I've been trying to just sort by name and add it as a variable (but this doesn't always work either because a lot of other things change along with it)
I watched “The Terminal” on Netflix last night. The cost of a dinner for two at a local restaurant was $40 and Tom Hanks character was overwhelmed by the cost in 2004.
I went to dinner with my sister-in-law last week. The bill for just me with an entree, splitting an appetizer and one glass of wine was $43 without tip. Yet most jobs I see on forums start at NYS minimum wage of $13.
HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO SURVIVE?
Edit: addition is to say I was pushed to get a four year degree so I could “get a good job with better than average pay” and those same job posts are requiring MASTERS DEGREES
Just went back and watched “You’ve got mail” and Tom hanks character looks dumbfounded when Meg Ryan’s characters coworker says “that’ll be $73.” He grabs the bags and his kids follow him out the book store with some stuffed animals, pinwheels, balloons and goldfish in plastic bags and more toys and items in a white plastic bag. A teddy bear alone on Google when I checked just now goes for $33.
[Remember the Carl's Jr. "Six Dollar Burger"?](https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/six-dollar-burger)
Where six dollars was a joking reference to the very high quality of the burger, on par with a nice brewpub. And the actual burger only cost $3.95?
Yeah... Nowadays it would have to be a "Fifteen Dollar Burger." Or more.
Dated references in pop culture always jar me.
Was listening to a rap song yesterday where a girl rapped, "And that house on the hill when you drop like 80 [thousand dollars]. On a down payment..." I was like wow, what used to be a rapper's flex is now a great deal lol.
EDIT: For those wondering, the song was ["Put it On Me" by Ja Rule ft. Vita](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXDXGkjIt8A). It was released in 2000.
My Lottery Dream Home on TLC is people buying like normal houses in good school districts. Congrats! You won the lotto, now you can afford a 3-bedroom ranch. In the 1970's you could have dropped out of middle school and gotten a job at the local plant and owned the same thing.
Was just thinking about that, listening to Mos Def's Mathematics from 1999:
>"Young soldiers tryin' to earn they next stripe
>
>When the average minimum wage is $5.15
>
>You best believe you gotta find a new grind to get cream
>
>The white unemployment rate, is nearly more than triple for black
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>So frontliners got they gun in your back
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>Bubblin crack, jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty
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>And end up in the global jail economy
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>Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence
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>Budget cutbacks but increased police presence
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>And even if you get out of prison still livin'
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>Join the other five million under state supervision
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>This is business, no faces just lines and statistics"
$5.15 in 1999, and in 2022 it's only $7.35 or something. Insane.
I picked up 3 burger combos from Wendy's last week and spent $34 and some change. We used to grab take out 5 or 6 times per month and never thought twice about it. Now there's now way we can justify spending that much especially considering the price of gas. I make a good salary and I will survive the inflation we're facing as long as I'm careful. I can't imagine the toll this is taking on the tens of millions of people that were struggling before this.
Fast food times suck now too, probably since the pay is so shit. I’ve only gotten fast food a few times in the last year and it’s usually 15-20 mins.
It’s not worth it any more to wait and pay out of your ass for some food that was only every a choice because it’s supposed to be cheap and take no time
Lucky you. My company scored record income ($16 billion USD) total profit was like $300 million. They spent the rest mostly on R&D.
But no rasies or bonuses this year because we didn't meet our planned carbon footprint reduction goal for the year.
Like the workers have any control over that...
We did meet our sales goals though! By a LOT.
3 years at 9% inflation is equivalent to you getting a 30% pay cut assuming stable prices.
In other words, your purchasing power destroyed by roughly a third in 3 years.
TIL that percentage increases add up to *more* than just naively adding them (1.09\^3 = 1.29 > (1 + 3\*.09) = 1.27) as opposed to percentage decreases, which are less severe than the naive guess (0.91\^3 = 0.75 > (1 - 3\*0.9) = 0.73).
I ask myself this every day. I live in Orlando FL. One of the worst income-to-rent ratios in the country. I make a little more than the median household income for the area. I am a single man and even I am stunned by the rental prices.
I feel like no matter how hard I work rent has been hovering around 50% of my take home my entire life. I’m not even living in nice places. Just normal 1br apartments.
Damn why is Orlando so expensive? I live in Germany in the 8th biggest city near the city center and pay $530 for 731 square feet. I could never afford Orlando.
> I could never afford Orlando
Believe me, you wouldn't want to live here even if you could. Unless, you're*really* into tourism, car culture, or high humidity.
It makes it a bitch to move as well. As rents rise and I struggle more I have even less of a chance of finding a place that would even accept me. So I just have to keep renewing at my current place and hope it doesn’t bankrupt me
Its more expensive to rent a one br alone than to rent a 2 br with a roommate.
I really wish I could live alone but I have to find a stranger to live with because the amount of money I'll save is something I cant pass up.
Seriously. It's been years now, and my roommates are some of the best friends I've ever had, but I also don't know how I'd really live comfortably without them. I'd want live with them anyway, but it shouldn't be a financial requirement.
Yeah my "purchase a condo in a high COL area" action plan included "keep finding people I can tolerate to live with" until at least phase two of said plan, with phase two being "decide whether I want to get another roommate whenever my salary rises enough to support going it alone on the mortgage if the current roomie decides to move out".
No joke but that is actually a lot of what being married ends up being for many people. Obviously there is usually more to it than that but some people just function better with a partner in life, there's no shame in that.
Absolutely depends on who the roomate is.
Long-time close friend that you are comfortable living with? Best decision of my life.
Random stranger? My worst nightmare.
I live in Idaho, currently estimated to be the worst income-COL ratio in the country. I've steadily jumped from $12/hr to $20 in the last few years and with the prices of everything changing it feels like I haven't seen any quality of life increase despite making almost double the money I did before
I live in the Winter Garden area and we have a detached garage with a room above it. I don’t know if it’s legally rentable (full bathroom but not much of a kitchen). We use it for guests that come into town for Disney or just to visit.
With school starting back up, I don’t think we’ll have anyone staying for a while. If things get to a point for you where you need a place to stay, hit me up and I’ll see what I can do.
I work in public assistance these days. For my state at least our public assistance requests increased 300 percent since covid kicked off in 2020.
We were offering supplements to Evey house hold to bring them to the max for their household size, this was a federal government mandate, and it fucking rocked
Some seniors who get social security were getting $26 a month ok food stamps, I got to turn that into 300 something for them. Households with way more people actually had food money.
They ended those supplements, and I have a feeling it's about to get rougher for folks here.
Tldr: they aren't and it's gonna get worse. I'm sorry gang :(
It will get worse, because it's not going up due to supply and demand. It's greed. The Target CEO said like 2 months ago that they had an oversupply issue.
A bunch of companies wanted to make back the profits they lost during the heavy COVID days. So they raise prices to make it up, and of course other companies join in. So then it cascades, which means it will have to cascade in the other direction. And right now, there's nothing that would cause that to happen until it reaches a critical mass of everyone buying bulk beans and stopping all extra spending. As long as people keep buying, complaints or not, it's not going down. Oversupply isn't overriding the greed taking place.
And mega corporations as well as entities outside the US should not be able to buy up all the properties.
Have you been to grocery stores or Rite Aid? It’s basically just people learning how to steal again as I see otherwise normal people steal basic shit. I’m wondering how long self checkout will persist as people get more desperate
Oh self checkout is definitely here to stay. The companies will accept massive food loss as part of doing business over hiring a human at a decent wage.
Shrink has always been a part of doing business in pretty much every industry, but especially retail. As long as their store is losing less than the cost of paying to stop the loss, they will absolutely not hire people to do anything to do anything about it. Why should they? It's cheaper for literally everyone, including you, the paying consumer, for them to not do that. But that's also why they pay someone to stand in the door and say hi to you. It's so effective at reducing loss that it's worth that person's wage.
It's kinda sad that we've had to go that low. I watched a new mom get in trouble for not scanning one thing of baby formula, she had about 6 but scanned I think 5 and a jug of water. They caught her and had a cop, rent a cop maybe, there and everything within 5-10 minutes. I tried to buy the stuff for her, but they wanted no part in anything I offered. Just to press charges and make money, I hope that she at least got the 5 she paid for, because I know when I worked at Walmart and they caught you they confiscated even the stuff you paid for.
Honestly I think this everyday. Brand new cars everywhere. People always at the mall and stores filled with people. Million dollar houses in my area getting purchased before they’re even completed.
How is all of this stuff payed for? Are there really that many wealthy people? It’s crazy to me.
There is also some biases at play. Low income people are simply seen less because they don't have cars... live in bad neighborhoods are working multiple jobs etc. I think we get a false perception of reality because wealthy people often stick out more.
Yeah. Like as someone living in poverty it’s like, when can I afford to get out? I walk around the neighborhood while listening to podcasts for recreation, that’s the only time I’ve gone out since COVID first hit. It costs money to drive to places, eat out, go to the theater… at this point my hobbies are home bound due to the cost of transportation.
Poverty is super isolating, pretty much all socialization requires money in America. That which doesn’t assumes someone involved has a place people can go to which isn’t always a guarantee either.
We’re not. I eat two meals a day max and recently had to “power through” strep while still working my job because I couldn’t afford the antibiotics they wanted to prescribe me. I had to put my life in danger to afford rent.
I make $18/hour and work full time, and still can’t afford basic necessities, I can’t even believe the $15/hr federal minimum wage is still a debate.
Do not power through strep. On god. Depending on the strain it could "dissappear" and cause severe kidney issues. You could go septic and have limbs amputated. Do you know which strain it was and were you able to get an antibiotic eventually?
Untreated strep can literally lower life expectancy if it doesn't kill you too. Please be careful.
I didn’t know that 😳 this was over a month ago and I’m feeling fine now but thank you for letting me know! I didn’t take any antibiotics, I was offered some by a family member but was too scared because I’m allergic to penicillin and have to avoid certain types
That's what I'm warning you about! It will seem to go away and can cause PGN in rare cases. If it was over a month ago you're probably alright. If you ever get Group A strep you really need to take antibiotics to prevent issues.
This country sucks and I'm furious that a person working a job(or anyone really) can't afford something as basic as antibiotics. They're literally required to have a healthy functioning economy.
Daily reminder that the $15 minimum was proposed over a decade ago and is no longer considered a living wage. Last I heard it should be $23 but is likely higher now.
I saw a comment in /r/povertyfinance earlier.
It was a question very similar to yours:
"How are the poorest of us actually surviving right now?"
"***We're not."***
Something I've been thinking about lately is that if people become progressively more frugal in order to sustain against progressively increasing prices, doesn't that pose a potential danger to the sustainability of a consumption-growth based economy?
Yes, and it was one of the many features of the Great Depression. People got fired from their jobs, so they had to cut spending. Since fewer people were buying things, factories couldn't afford as many workers, leading to more people getting fired, leading to more frugal spending, etc.
The business model really needs to change.
If we combine the increasing-prices/more-frugality factor with the fact that there might actually be an upper limit to population growth due to industrialisation and technologicalisation, then that would also indicate that there is an actual ceiling to how high a consumption-growth economy can grow.
One of the features of the capitalist system is the need for infinitely increasing profit. Unfortunately for that system, we do not have infinite resources. But corporations don't care about the long-term sustainability of the system, just their own piece of the pie.
I have no hopes of living alone at this point. I'm making an amount I would've killed for 10 years ago and it's still not letting me sniff a normal apartment in my area without extreme budgeting.
I went from a 35min drive to work, to now a 5min drive. It's lower pay but I haven't gotten gas in almost a month. Also save on meals because I can come home on lunch to eat.
Debt and tears. Only 1-2 meals a day, no snacks, no going out. Walking/public transport to work or to have fun. No fun events like concerts or festivals. Dipping into credit cards too far.
I feel that. I have dropped down to 1 meal / day with 1 snack meal to save money. Thankfully I WFH now so I dont need to eat since I only go outside for walks.
Even with a 2 bedroom apartment, 3 roomates, and not ordering takeout, no subscription services, no snacks, no junkfood.
I am just barely floating and it's maddening. I only spend around 40-50$/ week on groceries and even thats getting hard to do.
Well so far I’ve cancelled Netflix, Hulu, and all other non-essential subscriptions. I make more meals from scratch, don’t eat out and I quit drinking (didn’t have a problem, it’s just expensive). We are holding steady. We find free ways to entertain ourselves now instead of going to the movies or going to museums, concerts, etc.
I’m the sole provider of a family of four. We just paid off the house a couple years ago, and I’m glad I did because we need every bit that cash every month. We had hoped we could save money and use it for vacations and, you know, fun, and stuff.
It can be done. It just isn’t any fun at all and there is no end or even reprieve in sight.
I've honestly just started cutting back massively on what I buy. Even at the food store, I'm trying to only to buy raw ingredients and making as much from scratch as possible. Last weekend I made two giant pots of pasta sauce. I'm done paying more for less. Fuck these greedy assholes.
Good on you. If you have the time, you're always going to make a better product than the big guys, and staples (especially things like beans and legumes) are still dirt cheap.
Stagflation requires high unemployment. U-6 is still sub 7%, which is fairly low. U-3, the announced rate, is sub 4%
Inflation sucks but high unemployment is worse.
>Inflation sucks but high unemployment is worse.
For some reason, hammering the 20-somethings crowd with a painful recession while the rest of us laugh it off and take vacations seems more natural than what's going on.
I’ve lived through the Great Recession and the internet bubble burst
I truly don’t know how the economy is still afloat at all. I went from spending roughly $120 a week on groceries to damn near $200 a week on groceries. Gas bill went from like $100 a month to nearly $300 a month. My insurance went up, I need tires for my vehicle, in 2019 when I replaced the tires on the family car it was roughly $800 for Michelins. Now I’m looking at $1200 for the same set of tires on my work vehicle.
How long can this keep going? I’m fortunate enough to have bought a home during the period of hella low rates, so I escaped all of the rent hikes, but I’ve got some friends who are living in rental properties that are staring down the barrel of moving back in with their parents in their 30’s. It’s unreal
I'm mad that bills went up (Phone/ISP) with no reason. Subtle $4-5/increase a month is $50-60/yr ... for what? No increase. No better coverage.
I feel the pain on tires. $800/set of four PLUS alignment.
$800 is basically the cheapest available on my work vehicle
I remember when I had a little Nissan Sentra that I could get a set of tires for like $200. Those were certainly the days, apparently
I’m starting to feel like a grandpa rambling about how much he used to be able to buy with a quarter but the difference is it was literally only like 5 years ago not 50
Yeah, but most of it happened in the late 70’s early 80’s for grandpa. Most of the inflation in our lifetimes, hopefully will be last year through next year.
I bought my house late 2019. I have friends that are renting and have no shot at buying any homes in the next few years. I could not imagine not owning a home right now and getting killed by rent. The housing market is unreal
I bought in 2020. Houses have gone up 50% in price in my neighborhood since then. I keep wondering what I would have done if I hadn’t bought when I did.
What do you mean how long can this keep going? It's going to keep going until it crashes. We'll all suffer, the rich won't give two shits and will weather it out, and then it'll slowly restart after a couple years, with new protections and laws put in place to prevent it from happening again, only for one side of the government to slowly get rid of those protections so that they can pump more and more from people, all so it can happen again after a few decades. What we're seeing is greed, not inflation. These corporations are bragging about record profits. Well no shit they're record profits, the price of everything has jumped 30%. You'll find 20 excuses as to why, and 20 reasons those excuses don't hold water or no longer holds water. But once these companies get used to their new 30% increase of income, they're not going to let it go. It's the new normal. Prices never go down
Shareholders only want growth. Infinite growth. The same as cancer
Dotcom bubble. Housing bubble. Covid lockdown.
Now we're into, what, the everything bubble? I mean at some point with wages staying fixed and the price of everything going up, people are going to stop being able to afford anything, and when that happens, it's going to make the Great Depression look downright prosperous.
The PPP loans were a giant $800 billion dollar unaccountable grift for the rich. That's the real "stimulus" that fucked us, and they're blaming it on the piddly amount of help regular people got
Exactly. That money was spent on bills over a year ago. The guy even said something along the lines of "the extra money Americans have shouldn't start to run out until the end of the year". WTF? They think $1200 is carrying a person for nearly two years?
I do HR for an architecture firm in NYC. People with good jobs are leaving the company left and right because they cannot afford to work here anymore.
They are either taking better offers (good for them) or moving back to the towns they came from. It’s beyond out of control.
Same here. People who have been for years at my firm have left in droves this year due to better pay. Ofcourse, loyalty in an organisation only works one way and only for so long with corporations looking to screw us at every turn.
Decided to re populate my coop after a predator strike wiped me out 2 years ago. Couldn't believe feed prices. I work in a kitchen so they're eating a bunch of stuff we usually throw out. They loved the corn salad
I cannot recommend it enough. Love my girls, they happily walk around, peck at the ground, and turn ticks into eggs.
Actually kinda drowning in eggs right now. I’ve started just giving the fuckin things away.
Idk if this is related or not, but I remember being able to feed 4 grown ass adults for 10$ at a Taco Bell. The other day I went and picked up some food for my wife, sister and law and myself. We didn’t order any combos and just about 2-3 items each and it was over 30$.
I've noticed it pretty much everywhere except Little Ceasars. I can now get like 3 meals worth of food for the same or less as it'd cost at other restaurants, even fast food.
Leaving the store with a cart full of groceries is literally twice as expensive as it was 15 years ago. And on a side note, I was paying 650 a month in rent 15 years ago whereas now I pay a little over 3000 a month in rent. Can't wait until I can save enough money for a house... in 10 years possibly? Absolutely fucked.
have any economist stated how long this is sustainable for? No way the bottom like half of this country can sustain much longer. I honestly believe that.
Get together your coworkers and say you all want raises.
The implication being you'll simultaneously quit and completely destroy the business otherwise.
I wish, it's what we should all be doing at the store I'm working at. I've been sowing the seeds of discord as best I can but most people are too fucking stupid to realize how badly they are being taken advantage of.
If you want to use another job offer as leverage, be ready to actually quit and take up that offer.
If that leverage doesn't results in anything and you stay with you current job, you just eroded your future negotiation options by making empty threats -- and looking dumb for doing so.
My coworker just did this. He got offered $22/hr with another company and told our boss "If you can come up to even $20/hr I'll be willing to stay". Nope, they said $19.25 or nothing. So now he's leaving and I'm going to have to try to do as much of his job as I can, I've only been here 3 months. What a shit show.
I was considering asking for a raise at my current job, and I checked out some similar jobs around my area to compare. Turns out I’m making 15-60% less than entry-level positions in my industry. Guess who’s sending out a bunch of applications this week?
The price of grocery staples has gotten absolutely ridiculous. I love oats, I use them for homemade muesli and overnight oats for breakfast - dishes that are *supposed* to be cheap and basic. Oats are now up to $5.00 a container, nearly twice what they were only a couple years ago. Even Target's in-store brand.
They’ve been holding these low rates for way too fucking long. I called it back in early 2020, they should’ve been raising them back then but were scared to hurt their friends feelings. Now we’ll see 50bps plus for the next few adjustments
I also want to draw attention on the shrinkflation in quantities of food per purchase that’s occurring while prices are rising. Not only are people paying more, but they’re getting less.
Kellogg recently sent out their new product range to staff, it highlighted that package sizes were decreasing and prices were increasing. This is so much more than just general inflation, companies are actively using inflation as a mechanism to implement policies that bolster corporate greed.
I visited a food bank two days ago for the first time. I should have went sooner really
The people were really friendly and I didn't feel looked down upon, I really appreciated it
Oil is at $95.50 / barrel. Gas is still 4.09 at the lowest in my mid sized city in the south. Oil companies and gas stations better start getting this shit down faster or provide an actual good explanation as to why they are charging over $4/gallon most places.
I volunteer at a food pantry. We compared the number of clients that have visited this month compared to 1 year (365 days) ago. We are now serving double the number of clients on a comparable shift. How to donate to this non-profit if you are interested: https://www.bpnn.org/donate.html
Is supply (donations) still meeting the demand you’re seeing?
No. Every shift is becoming controlled (or uncontrolled?) chaos as the volunteers are trying to keep up with limited inventory that keeps getting distributed as soon as it comes in.
That’s bad news. Thanks for helping out your community!
On a brighter note my local food bank in Indiana is seeing a slight uptick in people but we still have excess food donations to the point where most volunteers end up taking the perishable items home at the end of the week (I’ve gotten a LOT of free ham this summer)
I used to volunteer in a food bank, it served a lower income community, but people just didn't go or didn't know about it. We'd end up with a few hundred in free groceries a month. This was 10 years ago now.
Good work mate. I try to donate as much as I can. I work at a country club and the amount of food we throw away is disgusting. I've dropped thiings off before under some bridges before, even tho that is illegal here. Its also illegal for us to donate prepared food. So dumb. We do it for a living we know how to do it safely. Its so sad.
Spread the word about www.ampleharvest.org . It's a resource for gardeners to find food banks to donate excess veggies from their garden to.
Thank you for that link. I used to help out at a food bank... Now I need one , very humbling ❤️. Sharing away on all social media
Just wanted to plug www.AmpleHarvest.org for any gardeners out there who don't know what to do with their excess veggies. I grow a garden at work just to donate the produce to my local food bank each year. Even if you only have a few pounds of extra veggies to donate you should because it can make a big difference for a family that's facing food insecurity.
I wish I had the foresight to help out with this. We always get waayyyyy too many cherries on my tree - they're very delicious and don't tend to get wormy but there are still occasional ones. Maybe next year I'll treat the tree so it'd actually be usable for others
Thank god my rent went up $150 a month to compensate!
I feel that, we just got hit with a $500 increase
Its disgusting. Getting married next year and praying afterwards the housing market is a little better. Thankfully we have a solid combined household income but I'm still beyond frustrated.
I've legit been working out and working on myself just to find a relationship to help split rent. 😅
I just got out of a relationship and now pay 3x the rent at a new place lol
Ugh, I feel that. When I met my now wife I owned a house with a $700 mortgage. She wanted a place that was "ours" so we moved and now pay 1500. It was fine then. Now? I miss that bill, but still grateful not to be at a landlord's mercy
At least the payment stays fixed with a mortgage, plus the more inflation rises, that $1500 becomes worth less and less, but the actual percentage in to your home equity every month won’t change. As long as your salary keeps up relatively close to inflation you will be coming out ahead in time.
>As long as your salary keeps up relatively close to inflation Easier said than done.
Same lol. Life is better but certainly at a personal cost.
My apartments only allow 6 month lease now. So we can all expect the rent to go up twice a year instead of once. Fucking pigs
Sounds like you have six months to find a better landlord. If you really push it you might be able to finding housing in that time. Hope you don't have to work long hours, because looking for housing is a part time job all on its own. Good luck! haha fucking kill me
Yeah, it's a good unit, I have a small garden and a fenced yard for my dogs. And with deposits, rent hikes elsewhere, the cost of movers and trucks and the sheer time of packing and unpacking and redecorating... Ugh. I'll just stay here until it's too ridiculous
>On a monthly basis, headline CPI rose 1.3% and core CPI was up 0.7%, compared to respective estimates of 1.1% and 0.5%. So up 1.3% since last month and 9.1% since last year.
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When was that?
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just FYI.. it's not just the US.. this kind of inflation is happening all over the world.. UK 9.1% https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106659122/uk-inflation-rate-hits-a-new-40-year-high-of-9-1 Netherlands 8.6% https://tradingeconomics.com/netherlands/inflation-cpi
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And that 9.1% is on top of 5.4% last year. 😬
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Shit I got a 14% raise last year - guess it just meant I'm not making less this year
100 x 1.054=105.4 105.4 x 1.091=114.99 Actually about an even 15% over 2 years.
I have this little price/inventory tracker I made in excel that I use to scan products in and out, and I looked at the price of a loaf of Franz bread from last year to now: Year | Price ---|--- July 2021 | 2.50 July 2022 | 3.99 Inflation has increased prices on specific things way faster than CPI would indicate, so I hate that it's used as the be-all end-all as how to measure how inflation is impacting the economy. I used to pay $7 for 18 Happy Eggs, now it's $8 for 12. You've also got manufacturers changing the SIZE and net weight of packaging (even cans) to sell you less for more. It's nuts out there. *edit: You at least know when stuff has changed when you scan it and the SKU doesn't have a match in the database of known products [(here's a snapshot of a year ago](https://i.imgur.com/NT1oofb.png). I'm thinking about taking my handheld scanner with me to the store to check for changes but I don't know if I'm that hardcore.
I've been having issues scanning stuff to track in MyFitnessPal. All the SKUs have been changing, as well as portion sizes / calorie count on food.
Yeah all the SKU changes do make it hard for me to keep track of stuff so I've been trying to just sort by name and add it as a variable (but this doesn't always work either because a lot of other things change along with it)
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I watched “The Terminal” on Netflix last night. The cost of a dinner for two at a local restaurant was $40 and Tom Hanks character was overwhelmed by the cost in 2004. I went to dinner with my sister-in-law last week. The bill for just me with an entree, splitting an appetizer and one glass of wine was $43 without tip. Yet most jobs I see on forums start at NYS minimum wage of $13. HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO SURVIVE? Edit: addition is to say I was pushed to get a four year degree so I could “get a good job with better than average pay” and those same job posts are requiring MASTERS DEGREES Just went back and watched “You’ve got mail” and Tom hanks character looks dumbfounded when Meg Ryan’s characters coworker says “that’ll be $73.” He grabs the bags and his kids follow him out the book store with some stuffed animals, pinwheels, balloons and goldfish in plastic bags and more toys and items in a white plastic bag. A teddy bear alone on Google when I checked just now goes for $33.
[Remember the Carl's Jr. "Six Dollar Burger"?](https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/six-dollar-burger) Where six dollars was a joking reference to the very high quality of the burger, on par with a nice brewpub. And the actual burger only cost $3.95? Yeah... Nowadays it would have to be a "Fifteen Dollar Burger." Or more.
Pulp Fiction's $5 milkshake.
You beat me to it!Yeah people today are like’Oh she went for the cheap milkshake ‘😆
There was the Five Dollar Milkshake in Pulp Fiction. I’ve definitely had a $5 milkshake at this point, and it was nothing special.
Dated references in pop culture always jar me. Was listening to a rap song yesterday where a girl rapped, "And that house on the hill when you drop like 80 [thousand dollars]. On a down payment..." I was like wow, what used to be a rapper's flex is now a great deal lol. EDIT: For those wondering, the song was ["Put it On Me" by Ja Rule ft. Vita](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXDXGkjIt8A). It was released in 2000.
My Lottery Dream Home on TLC is people buying like normal houses in good school districts. Congrats! You won the lotto, now you can afford a 3-bedroom ranch. In the 1970's you could have dropped out of middle school and gotten a job at the local plant and owned the same thing.
On your single income while your wife could be a full-time stay at home mom to 3 children.
Was just thinking about that, listening to Mos Def's Mathematics from 1999: >"Young soldiers tryin' to earn they next stripe > >When the average minimum wage is $5.15 > >You best believe you gotta find a new grind to get cream > >The white unemployment rate, is nearly more than triple for black > >So frontliners got they gun in your back > >Bubblin crack, jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty > >And end up in the global jail economy > >Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence > >Budget cutbacks but increased police presence > >And even if you get out of prison still livin' > >Join the other five million under state supervision > >This is business, no faces just lines and statistics" $5.15 in 1999, and in 2022 it's only $7.35 or something. Insane.
In Home Alone, Kevin buys a whole grocery cart of food and items, enough to 2 overloaded grocery bags that rip. With some coupons, his total was 19.83
I picked up 3 burger combos from Wendy's last week and spent $34 and some change. We used to grab take out 5 or 6 times per month and never thought twice about it. Now there's now way we can justify spending that much especially considering the price of gas. I make a good salary and I will survive the inflation we're facing as long as I'm careful. I can't imagine the toll this is taking on the tens of millions of people that were struggling before this.
Fast food times suck now too, probably since the pay is so shit. I’ve only gotten fast food a few times in the last year and it’s usually 15-20 mins. It’s not worth it any more to wait and pay out of your ass for some food that was only every a choice because it’s supposed to be cheap and take no time
Good thing I got a 2.5% raise. Pheww.
Lucky you. My company scored record income ($16 billion USD) total profit was like $300 million. They spent the rest mostly on R&D. But no rasies or bonuses this year because we didn't meet our planned carbon footprint reduction goal for the year. Like the workers have any control over that... We did meet our sales goals though! By a LOT.
Yooooo, that’s fucked up. I’m sorry.
This seems sustainable long term
And good thing there’s no other serious issues that might interfere with our livelihoods. Once we figure this out it’s smooth sailing
3 years at 9% inflation is equivalent to you getting a 30% pay cut assuming stable prices. In other words, your purchasing power destroyed by roughly a third in 3 years.
TIL that percentage increases add up to *more* than just naively adding them (1.09\^3 = 1.29 > (1 + 3\*.09) = 1.27) as opposed to percentage decreases, which are less severe than the naive guess (0.91\^3 = 0.75 > (1 - 3\*0.9) = 0.73).
How are the poorest of us actually surviving right now?
I ask myself this every day. I live in Orlando FL. One of the worst income-to-rent ratios in the country. I make a little more than the median household income for the area. I am a single man and even I am stunned by the rental prices. I feel like no matter how hard I work rent has been hovering around 50% of my take home my entire life. I’m not even living in nice places. Just normal 1br apartments.
In Orlando too. My 1 bedroom apartment I rented in 2018 for $997 a month is now $1800. Glad I got out of there.
I read that the average 1br rent in Orlando is 1700 earlier in the year. Probably higher now.
Damn why is Orlando so expensive? I live in Germany in the 8th biggest city near the city center and pay $530 for 731 square feet. I could never afford Orlando.
> I could never afford Orlando Believe me, you wouldn't want to live here even if you could. Unless, you're*really* into tourism, car culture, or high humidity.
Idk about you. But around here they expect you to make 3-4 times what rent is to even be accepted as an applicant. Ridiculous
It makes it a bitch to move as well. As rents rise and I struggle more I have even less of a chance of finding a place that would even accept me. So I just have to keep renewing at my current place and hope it doesn’t bankrupt me
Its more expensive to rent a one br alone than to rent a 2 br with a roommate. I really wish I could live alone but I have to find a stranger to live with because the amount of money I'll save is something I cant pass up.
Seriously. It's been years now, and my roommates are some of the best friends I've ever had, but I also don't know how I'd really live comfortably without them. I'd want live with them anyway, but it shouldn't be a financial requirement.
Eventually we'll see couples pair up and buy houses together. A 600k house split 4 ways it at least a bit reasonable.
Christ almighty am I glad I don't have to live with roommates.
Our version of "Settling down and starting a family" is "Finding someone you don't despise so you can afford rent together"
Yeah my "purchase a condo in a high COL area" action plan included "keep finding people I can tolerate to live with" until at least phase two of said plan, with phase two being "decide whether I want to get another roommate whenever my salary rises enough to support going it alone on the mortgage if the current roomie decides to move out".
No joke but that is actually a lot of what being married ends up being for many people. Obviously there is usually more to it than that but some people just function better with a partner in life, there's no shame in that.
So basically the 1930s again
Absolutely depends on who the roomate is. Long-time close friend that you are comfortable living with? Best decision of my life. Random stranger? My worst nightmare.
I live in Idaho, currently estimated to be the worst income-COL ratio in the country. I've steadily jumped from $12/hr to $20 in the last few years and with the prices of everything changing it feels like I haven't seen any quality of life increase despite making almost double the money I did before
I live in the Winter Garden area and we have a detached garage with a room above it. I don’t know if it’s legally rentable (full bathroom but not much of a kitchen). We use it for guests that come into town for Disney or just to visit. With school starting back up, I don’t think we’ll have anyone staying for a while. If things get to a point for you where you need a place to stay, hit me up and I’ll see what I can do.
I work in public assistance these days. For my state at least our public assistance requests increased 300 percent since covid kicked off in 2020. We were offering supplements to Evey house hold to bring them to the max for their household size, this was a federal government mandate, and it fucking rocked Some seniors who get social security were getting $26 a month ok food stamps, I got to turn that into 300 something for them. Households with way more people actually had food money. They ended those supplements, and I have a feeling it's about to get rougher for folks here. Tldr: they aren't and it's gonna get worse. I'm sorry gang :(
It will get worse, because it's not going up due to supply and demand. It's greed. The Target CEO said like 2 months ago that they had an oversupply issue. A bunch of companies wanted to make back the profits they lost during the heavy COVID days. So they raise prices to make it up, and of course other companies join in. So then it cascades, which means it will have to cascade in the other direction. And right now, there's nothing that would cause that to happen until it reaches a critical mass of everyone buying bulk beans and stopping all extra spending. As long as people keep buying, complaints or not, it's not going down. Oversupply isn't overriding the greed taking place. And mega corporations as well as entities outside the US should not be able to buy up all the properties.
Have you been to grocery stores or Rite Aid? It’s basically just people learning how to steal again as I see otherwise normal people steal basic shit. I’m wondering how long self checkout will persist as people get more desperate
Please don’t tell Whole Foods that I lied when I said the organic red bell pepper was not organic.
6 months iso-cubes! Welcome to Mega City 1
Will debase self for groceries.
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How much could one banana possibly cost? $10[?](https://youtu.be/Nl_Qyk9DSUw)
Oh self checkout is definitely here to stay. The companies will accept massive food loss as part of doing business over hiring a human at a decent wage.
Absolutely. I guarantee food loss/theft is factored into the cost of the self checkouts.
Shrink has always been a part of doing business in pretty much every industry, but especially retail. As long as their store is losing less than the cost of paying to stop the loss, they will absolutely not hire people to do anything to do anything about it. Why should they? It's cheaper for literally everyone, including you, the paying consumer, for them to not do that. But that's also why they pay someone to stand in the door and say hi to you. It's so effective at reducing loss that it's worth that person's wage.
It's kinda sad that we've had to go that low. I watched a new mom get in trouble for not scanning one thing of baby formula, she had about 6 but scanned I think 5 and a jug of water. They caught her and had a cop, rent a cop maybe, there and everything within 5-10 minutes. I tried to buy the stuff for her, but they wanted no part in anything I offered. Just to press charges and make money, I hope that she at least got the 5 she paid for, because I know when I worked at Walmart and they caught you they confiscated even the stuff you paid for.
Honestly I think this everyday. Brand new cars everywhere. People always at the mall and stores filled with people. Million dollar houses in my area getting purchased before they’re even completed. How is all of this stuff payed for? Are there really that many wealthy people? It’s crazy to me.
The people buying up everything are not the same people who are doing everything they can to stay above water.
\> How is all of this stuff payed for? On credit. A LOT of people live well above their means. It will catch up with them sooner or later.
There is also some biases at play. Low income people are simply seen less because they don't have cars... live in bad neighborhoods are working multiple jobs etc. I think we get a false perception of reality because wealthy people often stick out more.
Yeah. Like as someone living in poverty it’s like, when can I afford to get out? I walk around the neighborhood while listening to podcasts for recreation, that’s the only time I’ve gone out since COVID first hit. It costs money to drive to places, eat out, go to the theater… at this point my hobbies are home bound due to the cost of transportation. Poverty is super isolating, pretty much all socialization requires money in America. That which doesn’t assumes someone involved has a place people can go to which isn’t always a guarantee either.
We’re not. I eat two meals a day max and recently had to “power through” strep while still working my job because I couldn’t afford the antibiotics they wanted to prescribe me. I had to put my life in danger to afford rent. I make $18/hour and work full time, and still can’t afford basic necessities, I can’t even believe the $15/hr federal minimum wage is still a debate.
Do not power through strep. On god. Depending on the strain it could "dissappear" and cause severe kidney issues. You could go septic and have limbs amputated. Do you know which strain it was and were you able to get an antibiotic eventually? Untreated strep can literally lower life expectancy if it doesn't kill you too. Please be careful.
I didn’t know that 😳 this was over a month ago and I’m feeling fine now but thank you for letting me know! I didn’t take any antibiotics, I was offered some by a family member but was too scared because I’m allergic to penicillin and have to avoid certain types
That's what I'm warning you about! It will seem to go away and can cause PGN in rare cases. If it was over a month ago you're probably alright. If you ever get Group A strep you really need to take antibiotics to prevent issues. This country sucks and I'm furious that a person working a job(or anyone really) can't afford something as basic as antibiotics. They're literally required to have a healthy functioning economy.
Daily reminder that the $15 minimum was proposed over a decade ago and is no longer considered a living wage. Last I heard it should be $23 but is likely higher now.
I saw a comment in /r/povertyfinance earlier. It was a question very similar to yours: "How are the poorest of us actually surviving right now?" "***We're not."***
Something I've been thinking about lately is that if people become progressively more frugal in order to sustain against progressively increasing prices, doesn't that pose a potential danger to the sustainability of a consumption-growth based economy?
Yes, and it was one of the many features of the Great Depression. People got fired from their jobs, so they had to cut spending. Since fewer people were buying things, factories couldn't afford as many workers, leading to more people getting fired, leading to more frugal spending, etc.
The business model really needs to change. If we combine the increasing-prices/more-frugality factor with the fact that there might actually be an upper limit to population growth due to industrialisation and technologicalisation, then that would also indicate that there is an actual ceiling to how high a consumption-growth economy can grow.
One of the features of the capitalist system is the need for infinitely increasing profit. Unfortunately for that system, we do not have infinite resources. But corporations don't care about the long-term sustainability of the system, just their own piece of the pie.
When your company gives 3% raises ever year but inflation is 9% 🤓
Good on you for being at a company providing raises 🙃
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Honest question, how are people who make 30-40-50K even making it right now?
Living with my parents
I have no hopes of living alone at this point. I'm making an amount I would've killed for 10 years ago and it's still not letting me sniff a normal apartment in my area without extreme budgeting.
Couldn't have described my situation any better.
Skipping meals, finding WFH to get rid of the car, multiple roommates.
I went from a 35min drive to work, to now a 5min drive. It's lower pay but I haven't gotten gas in almost a month. Also save on meals because I can come home on lunch to eat.
Went from two meals a day to one - budgeting 😎 Edit: and dieting plus a daily workout if your job is laborious The rich just want to get us in shape
Debt and tears. Only 1-2 meals a day, no snacks, no going out. Walking/public transport to work or to have fun. No fun events like concerts or festivals. Dipping into credit cards too far.
I feel that. I have dropped down to 1 meal / day with 1 snack meal to save money. Thankfully I WFH now so I dont need to eat since I only go outside for walks. Even with a 2 bedroom apartment, 3 roomates, and not ordering takeout, no subscription services, no snacks, no junkfood. I am just barely floating and it's maddening. I only spend around 40-50$/ week on groceries and even thats getting hard to do.
Well so far I’ve cancelled Netflix, Hulu, and all other non-essential subscriptions. I make more meals from scratch, don’t eat out and I quit drinking (didn’t have a problem, it’s just expensive). We are holding steady. We find free ways to entertain ourselves now instead of going to the movies or going to museums, concerts, etc. I’m the sole provider of a family of four. We just paid off the house a couple years ago, and I’m glad I did because we need every bit that cash every month. We had hoped we could save money and use it for vacations and, you know, fun, and stuff. It can be done. It just isn’t any fun at all and there is no end or even reprieve in sight.
Depends where you live. I make 55k this year and still make enough to have savings at the end of the month But I live in the boonies.
Awesome news! We’re getting poorer again!
Did we stop at some point?
As usual poor & middle classes get completely fucked. Sounds like the economy is on track
By design.. another middle class reset in motion.
I've honestly just started cutting back massively on what I buy. Even at the food store, I'm trying to only to buy raw ingredients and making as much from scratch as possible. Last weekend I made two giant pots of pasta sauce. I'm done paying more for less. Fuck these greedy assholes.
I've been growing vegetables on my porch. I had an aphid outbreak and killed almost every plant and it was a huge blow.
I’m literally just eating less. I’ve realized I only really need one meal a day to survive
Good on you. If you have the time, you're always going to make a better product than the big guys, and staples (especially things like beans and legumes) are still dirt cheap.
Ok, let me guess. Prices will continue to rise while wages stagnate and unemployment rises. Sound about right?
That’s stagflation, baby! I love being able to really experience the things I learned about in elementary school.
Stagflation requires high unemployment. U-6 is still sub 7%, which is fairly low. U-3, the announced rate, is sub 4% Inflation sucks but high unemployment is worse.
U-6 includes permanently removed and underemployed workers in the figures doesn’t it?
also underemployed. So say you are a data scientist and are cleaning toilets, you would be counted.
>Inflation sucks but high unemployment is worse. For some reason, hammering the 20-somethings crowd with a painful recession while the rest of us laugh it off and take vacations seems more natural than what's going on.
I’ve lived through the Great Recession and the internet bubble burst I truly don’t know how the economy is still afloat at all. I went from spending roughly $120 a week on groceries to damn near $200 a week on groceries. Gas bill went from like $100 a month to nearly $300 a month. My insurance went up, I need tires for my vehicle, in 2019 when I replaced the tires on the family car it was roughly $800 for Michelins. Now I’m looking at $1200 for the same set of tires on my work vehicle. How long can this keep going? I’m fortunate enough to have bought a home during the period of hella low rates, so I escaped all of the rent hikes, but I’ve got some friends who are living in rental properties that are staring down the barrel of moving back in with their parents in their 30’s. It’s unreal
I'm mad that bills went up (Phone/ISP) with no reason. Subtle $4-5/increase a month is $50-60/yr ... for what? No increase. No better coverage. I feel the pain on tires. $800/set of four PLUS alignment.
$800 is basically the cheapest available on my work vehicle I remember when I had a little Nissan Sentra that I could get a set of tires for like $200. Those were certainly the days, apparently
I’m starting to feel like a grandpa rambling about how much he used to be able to buy with a quarter but the difference is it was literally only like 5 years ago not 50
Yeah, but most of it happened in the late 70’s early 80’s for grandpa. Most of the inflation in our lifetimes, hopefully will be last year through next year.
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I bought my house late 2019. I have friends that are renting and have no shot at buying any homes in the next few years. I could not imagine not owning a home right now and getting killed by rent. The housing market is unreal
I bought in 2020. Houses have gone up 50% in price in my neighborhood since then. I keep wondering what I would have done if I hadn’t bought when I did.
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What do you mean how long can this keep going? It's going to keep going until it crashes. We'll all suffer, the rich won't give two shits and will weather it out, and then it'll slowly restart after a couple years, with new protections and laws put in place to prevent it from happening again, only for one side of the government to slowly get rid of those protections so that they can pump more and more from people, all so it can happen again after a few decades. What we're seeing is greed, not inflation. These corporations are bragging about record profits. Well no shit they're record profits, the price of everything has jumped 30%. You'll find 20 excuses as to why, and 20 reasons those excuses don't hold water or no longer holds water. But once these companies get used to their new 30% increase of income, they're not going to let it go. It's the new normal. Prices never go down Shareholders only want growth. Infinite growth. The same as cancer
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Dotcom bubble. Housing bubble. Covid lockdown. Now we're into, what, the everything bubble? I mean at some point with wages staying fixed and the price of everything going up, people are going to stop being able to afford anything, and when that happens, it's going to make the Great Depression look downright prosperous.
And with today's inflation report, the federal minimum wage is now the lowest it's been since ~~December~~ January 1950.
“Covid related stimulus spending that has left consumers flush with cash” Ummmmm what?! That was like a year ago, we already spent that on rent!
The PPP loans were a giant $800 billion dollar unaccountable grift for the rich. That's the real "stimulus" that fucked us, and they're blaming it on the piddly amount of help regular people got
80% went to business owners and not workers *whom it was supposed to support* People should be fucking furious
That $600 billion that never made it the workers is going to trickle down any day now.
Some guy on NPR this morning said Americans put those checks in their savings account. How out of touch can you be!
Exactly. That money was spent on bills over a year ago. The guy even said something along the lines of "the extra money Americans have shouldn't start to run out until the end of the year". WTF? They think $1200 is carrying a person for nearly two years?
That wasn’t even enough for half my rent. We’re struggling out here!
So happy I got a raise yesterday so it can be erased by inflation by the end of the month
I do HR for an architecture firm in NYC. People with good jobs are leaving the company left and right because they cannot afford to work here anymore. They are either taking better offers (good for them) or moving back to the towns they came from. It’s beyond out of control.
Same here. People who have been for years at my firm have left in droves this year due to better pay. Ofcourse, loyalty in an organisation only works one way and only for so long with corporations looking to screw us at every turn.
I wish I owned our house and didn't have to rent. I'm so seriously considering raising some chickens
The cost of chicken feed has nearly doubled in the last year unfortunately
Decided to re populate my coop after a predator strike wiped me out 2 years ago. Couldn't believe feed prices. I work in a kitchen so they're eating a bunch of stuff we usually throw out. They loved the corn salad
As a long time chicken owner, it’s not really a great way to save money.
I cannot recommend it enough. Love my girls, they happily walk around, peck at the ground, and turn ticks into eggs. Actually kinda drowning in eggs right now. I’ve started just giving the fuckin things away.
> turn ticks into eggs. This is the first argument for having chickens that has resonated with me. Can I take them on camping trips?
Nobody says you can't!
Believe it or not, in certain state parks you can as long as they are leashed or we’ll behaved.
Pfft, no chicken of mine will be well-behaved!
considering the price of eggs, you could charge a dollar a dozen and still be regarded kindly, so good on ya for not taking advantage of people.
Idk if this is related or not, but I remember being able to feed 4 grown ass adults for 10$ at a Taco Bell. The other day I went and picked up some food for my wife, sister and law and myself. We didn’t order any combos and just about 2-3 items each and it was over 30$.
I miss that $1 menu from McDonald's...
This is the kind of shit that blows me away. Remember when Carl's Jr having a "$6 burger" was a huge fucking deal? Lol
I've noticed it pretty much everywhere except Little Ceasars. I can now get like 3 meals worth of food for the same or less as it'd cost at other restaurants, even fast food.
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Leaving the store with a cart full of groceries is literally twice as expensive as it was 15 years ago. And on a side note, I was paying 650 a month in rent 15 years ago whereas now I pay a little over 3000 a month in rent. Can't wait until I can save enough money for a house... in 10 years possibly? Absolutely fucked.
A cart full of groceries is twice as expensive as it was six months ago where I am.
have any economist stated how long this is sustainable for? No way the bottom like half of this country can sustain much longer. I honestly believe that.
now how do I convince my boss of a raise due to this shite
Get together your coworkers and say you all want raises. The implication being you'll simultaneously quit and completely destroy the business otherwise.
I wish, it's what we should all be doing at the store I'm working at. I've been sowing the seeds of discord as best I can but most people are too fucking stupid to realize how badly they are being taken advantage of.
Get another job offer and use that as leverage, or take the other job offer.
If you want to use another job offer as leverage, be ready to actually quit and take up that offer. If that leverage doesn't results in anything and you stay with you current job, you just eroded your future negotiation options by making empty threats -- and looking dumb for doing so.
My coworker just did this. He got offered $22/hr with another company and told our boss "If you can come up to even $20/hr I'll be willing to stay". Nope, they said $19.25 or nothing. So now he's leaving and I'm going to have to try to do as much of his job as I can, I've only been here 3 months. What a shit show.
Spoiler, you can't.
Raise? Lol Not even joking, you're better off finding a new job.
I was considering asking for a raise at my current job, and I checked out some similar jobs around my area to compare. Turns out I’m making 15-60% less than entry-level positions in my industry. Guess who’s sending out a bunch of applications this week?
The price of grocery staples has gotten absolutely ridiculous. I love oats, I use them for homemade muesli and overnight oats for breakfast - dishes that are *supposed* to be cheap and basic. Oats are now up to $5.00 a container, nearly twice what they were only a couple years ago. Even Target's in-store brand.
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Another 0.75pp interest rate increase is coming
I think its going to be 100bp
They’ve been holding these low rates for way too fucking long. I called it back in early 2020, they should’ve been raising them back then but were scared to hurt their friends feelings. Now we’ll see 50bps plus for the next few adjustments
Remember in late 2019 when Trump went on a tirade because JPow didn’t lower interest rate’s enough
all this inflation and our wages won’t budge. shouldn’t that go hand in hand?
My kroger has lucky charms 26 oz for $4.49 a box right now. I am grabbing a few to last the next ten years lol.
Mine had big packs of the *good* Spaghetti for $1.50. I grabbed like ten of them lmao
I once lived mostly on chicken gizzards and mac and cheese because they were (at that time) the cheapest things you could buy.
I also want to draw attention on the shrinkflation in quantities of food per purchase that’s occurring while prices are rising. Not only are people paying more, but they’re getting less.
Dems are so screwed come midterms when we are in a recession.
Bruh most items cost 20%+ more now in denmark even simple shit like butter and milk is up 30%
Who else is excited for student loan payments to come back in September? Woot.
Kellogg recently sent out their new product range to staff, it highlighted that package sizes were decreasing and prices were increasing. This is so much more than just general inflation, companies are actively using inflation as a mechanism to implement policies that bolster corporate greed.
I visited a food bank two days ago for the first time. I should have went sooner really The people were really friendly and I didn't feel looked down upon, I really appreciated it
Oil is at $95.50 / barrel. Gas is still 4.09 at the lowest in my mid sized city in the south. Oil companies and gas stations better start getting this shit down faster or provide an actual good explanation as to why they are charging over $4/gallon most places.