Trump’s plan to massively increase your grocery bill is working
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Low-information voters angry about inflation were probably the single most important reason that Trump won:
- Virtually all major grocery categories are now more expensive than they were a year ago, some substantially so.
- Whatever growth the administration says is coming from its trade and industrial policy, nothing is more vivid to households than what they pay to feed themselves.
- This was the biggest month-over-month increase since August 2022, the tail end of a year of huge monthly increases in grocery prices.
- But those same trade barriers can raise input costs — from fertilizer to machinery to transportation — that ripple through food prices.
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- Coffee is up 20.9% year-over-year, with a 3.1% monthly increase, per CPI.
- Uncooked beef steaks are up 16.6% year-over-year with a 3.3% monthly bump.
- While fruits and vegetable overall were up 2.3% year over year, apples rose 9.6% and bananas, 6.6%.
And needless to say this is only going to get worse as the tariffs continue to kick in, the number of agricultural workers continues to decrease, etc.