Oil prices are rising after the attacks on Iran & if the conflict drags on, we could see oil spike past $100 a barrel.
As @AlexSJacquez tells @AP, Americans already feel like Trump isn’t focused on what they care about most: the price of groceries & everyday essentials.
As I said yesterday
Construction spending fell across the board in 2025.
Trump says we’re in “the Golden Age of America.”
As @AlexSJacquez points out on @News4SA, “People don't believe it. They don't feel it in their lived experience. They still feel that their prices are too high.”
Amazon may be rigging the game against you by blocking sellers from offering you a deal. That means you could end up paying more on Amazon’s site — even if the seller would gladly charge you less somewhere else.
In other words: a lower price could exist. Amazon is just making
Trump has failed to deliver on his economic promises, & he’s made health care even **more** expensive.
Republicans’ only solution says @WIExaminer editor-in-chief is a combo of bluster, bullying & straight up lies.
“I think the question is whether the actual policies put
“The business of sports is starting to really suck the fun out of it for all of us fans,” @owenslindsay1 tells @ksatnews.
The cost for a San Antonio family of 4 to attend the Houston World Cup Match would run them the equivalent of ~6 months of health insurance premiums.
Even
yes. @AlexSJacquez, @EmDiVito, and i wrote about why and how to fix it: https://groundworkcollaborative.org/work/street-pricing/
20 rural hospital closures in 2021-24 vs. 55 closures in 2017-20 (per @uncsheps). And OBBBA's $50B rural health fund is ~20x smaller than its near-$1T in Medicaid cuts
🧾Tariffs acting as another tax on essentials
💡 Electricity bills soaring
📈 Health care costs spiking
💸 Household debt rising but Wages remain stagnant
“There are a lot of things going on at once and it’s not good,” our @ENPancotti told @guardian.
Our @AlexSJacquez spells it out: “We’ve seen this coming for decades, and policymakers have yet to address.”
Congress can extend it at any time by simply raising taxes on the rich.
The Congressional Budget Office is projecting the main Social Security trust fund to run dry in 2032, with retirees possibly seeing their monthly checks reduced in six years time.
.@business breaks down **why** Americans are feeling so squeezed & why everything is still (!) so damn expensive.
Groceries, housing, everyday expenses, & medical expenses have soared while wages haven’t kept up.
“There’s nothing else I can do. I’m terrified to see my next
Even the Wall Street Journal is saying it out loud.
Over half of Americans say health care, a weeklong vacation and a new car are unaffordable; nearly half have at least some debt, a new @ABC News/WaPo/Ipsos poll finds.
Read more: https://abcnews.link/ef57D1d
As @owenslindsay1 told @YahooFinance, the economy used to be Trump’s “superpower.” Now?
Americans oppose Trump’s tariffs by nearly 2-to-1, & a clear majority disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy & inflation.
“It’s been really an incredible reversal of fortune for the
