The Grocery Bills That Could Decide the Election
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- This election, like a lot of elections before it, may come down to which candidate voters think might help them with their grocery bills and housing costs - the essential stuff of everyday economics.
That’s what people around the country say - and what they tell pollsters too.
But the fact that life feels expensive right now is not just something voters are talking about.
Campaigns are too.
Kamala Harris just released an ad focused on how hard it is to own a home in the United States and an economic policy aimed at curbing prices. And Donald Trump has been on the trail touting his economic record.
So, this week on “The Run-Up,” we spend time talking with people who feel the economy is not working for them - and talking to Jason DeParle, who covers poverty for The New York Times, about how the candidates say they’ll help the poorest Americans.
On today’s episode
Jason DeParle (www.nytimes.co...) , who writes about poverty in the United States for The New York Times.
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Corporate Greed. Do not let Kroger and Albertsons merge
I have a son who has 8 kids, girl bye
Out of control health and dental costs due to for-profit health conglomerates and health insurance, and price gouging in rent and home prices by speculators both need to be at the top of discussion as well.
Greedflation AND shrinkflation must be ENDED.
Say it with me! 😊
Like the 'in person focus group' format. Very interesting to hear directly from voters. Would love to see more of that.
It's sad to hear these people genuinely not realize that Trump's behavior caused this mess that's taking us time to fix.
Honestly... one or two good conversations and I feel like they'd flip.
People don’t have the right to direct even their own step. Democracy is so stupid and fragile and ends with the government mirroring a people who don’t even have their own lives together.
Wow, that First Lady isn’t very bright. Complaining, complaining, complaining, and I bet if you could go back in time to when she was in high school you’d see her thinking that getting a good education was a big joke.
It's Trump's fault the prices are so high. His handling of the coronavirus was a catastrophe. It's his fault that the ports got backed up countless people died because of his incompetence considering what we had to deal with from his insanity we are doing incredibly well.
Cope hard. Prices are still high, they had 3.5 years to fix it.
If only there was media organisation that could inform and educate the public of the realities of inflation. Rather than report on how peoples ignorance will shape elections.
The most savage slaughter of a centrist politician I´ve ever witnessed was a discussion about inflation. A citizen compared her groceries bill of two consecutive years (item by item the same) and it went up 23% or something. Then the 'expert politician' said... yeah... but globally it´s just 5 % because holidays went down and smartphones went down and high end electronics went down,... And then the citizen looked him right in the eye and said "do I look as if I could afford ANY of those things." I think the guy knew then and there that he was toast.
We have a choice. We can face the fact that the economy is BRUTAL for the lower half of the economy or we can try to ´teach´ them about inflation and find out how that's gonna turn out.
These are lazy ass people. Don’t expect them to do an honest days worth of job
Unfortunately, people who follow big news organizations already have an entrenched view of how inflation works. The majority don't follow them and wouldn't see the information in the first place. Much bigger problem than what the NYT covers.
@@tomhavenith2330 it's not just the lower 1/2 .. when the top 10% (the 1 + next 9) control 80% of the wealth (20% + 60%) .. the 'bottom' 90% compete for the remaining 20% .. people with $10 million don't think they are rich because they don't have $50 million ...
@@tomhavenith2330The thing is that we also have to face the fact that one side's "plan" hurts that poorer half of the population even more while cutting taxes on the Uber rich and huge corporations who have unprecedented profit margins.
If I hear someone say "unprecedented time" one more time....
Have you done an analysis of where the covid money ended up? Watch Gary Stevenson on that one. (Spoiler:with the rich)
Maga, "I'll give up all my freedoms because my bananas cost too much."
I had hoped for more content about grocery prices.
"I'm tired of working my ass off for other people." ... so I'll be voting for the guy who wants to give all my taxes to the richest of the rich. 😢
this isn't about making rational decisions...people are pissed off and want to blame someone and want a change
They’re not rational people.
I think everyone gets that inflation is a problem. But what did we expect the govt to do? Like. They have switch to turn it off or on? Why don’t we hold the corporations responsible or your jobs that didn’t give an proportional increase while the increased their prices
This. I truly don't get how people think things will be better if they elect Trump. We live in an internationally-connected world. Many (most if not nearly all) products Americans normally buy are made overseas. This idea that we can just "increase tariffs" is nonsense, those companies would just raise prices to pass those tarriffs along to consumers. We can't block international products, if we did so we'd have to go into stark austerity (living without a lot of the things we take for granted.. because we dont' produce any of those things locally. And to do so would take decades of ramp up). Whether you're talking USA or UK (which has its own financial issues).. a lot of shit is broken and we can't just keep kicking that can down the road. At some point some generation somewhere is going to have to take it on the chin and go into austerity. The only way we could put pressure on greedy corporations -- is people en masse need to stop buying things. Once products start aging-out on warehouse shelves and not moving.. eventually corporations will be forced to lower prices.
Ppl aren’t strategic. They don’t really care about inflation. They care about the fact that they are affected by it, and they are in pain and they will fall back on prejudices. They don’t in fact care about the corporate lobbyists price-gouging by regulation capture
We do need to hold corporations responsible! But we need the government to help us with that. Cracking down on monopolies, union busting and increasing corporate tax rates, etc. Otherwise, people have no power. I just hope we see another time period where the house, senate and presidency can be democrat controlled. The last time that happened was at the beginning of Obamas presidency and he was able to end the war in Iraq, legalize same-sex marriage and pass Obamacare, which I think were some of the most salient issues at the time
In the U.S., we spend a smaller % of our income for food than any other western country. The president doesn't set prices for anything, they are determined by supply and demand market forces.
These are both true statements, but also ignore the context around inflationary pressures created since 2020. Initial QE, interest-free business loans, housing ownership expansion, inability to keep supply lines open, etc. The President doesn't set prices, but had an awful lot of power over these and many other factors that drove prices to where they are now.
and in comparison to others cheaper gas & energy ...
Also we pay a heck of a lot more for housing than is conscionable.
Capitalism enshittifies everything.
I think for this election, once someone indicates they are politically party aligned, it’s very easy to guess they position on almost every issue so I don’t quite understand the value of digging into the nuances of their position since it most likely wouldn’t reveal anything new and especially since studies show people rate the economy based on their partisan affiliation, I think the time would be better spent finding people that are conflicted on who to vote for to ascertain what issues they are considering
And I thought this would be objective 🤣🤣
As others have said,. I think this is a good start reminder of how some people at the bottom feel emotionally hurt and desperate. (and to some degree, legitimately). But I honestly don't see how or what we could do to convince them. If an individual has gotten to the point of desperation or exhaustion that they just keep repeating "All politicians are equally bad".. it's not like Harris-Walz can just roll up in an expensive cross-country tour Bus and magically change that poor persons emotional opinion. Hell, .you could probably hand that poor person a briefcase of $10 million,.. that might make them happy, and it would certainly change their life.. but I doubt it would change their opinion of politicians or the border situation. I just don't know how you fix that entrenched mindset. A team like Harris-Walz could do positive things for the next 50 years. .and there will probably still be Maga-acolytes driving around in big lifted pickup trucks with massive flags screaming something about "teh deep state!!"..
you change mindset by proper education. make sure kids stay in school and don't drop out before HS. make university cheaper or even free (don't give handouts or wipe loans but make the universities cheaper and any university that splurges on fancy stadiums and sports facilities or million $$ coaches, pull all state and federal funding.
Education is the key to future. an informed citizen is the way to future. So that these magacucks cant play on people's hardships and brainwash them
how about 20 people getting $500k ....??
And this is why we need better education. 🙄 (And also why one party wants to get rid the department of education and lower education standards. Right out from every history's authoritarians' playbook.)
#SNAP benefits will help you if you have trouble paying for food. Do not hesitate to find out whether or not you are eligible. It is an entitlement, there is no shame in taking the help and besides there is nearly no housing help available at least for renters, so get that help for #foodsecurity.
As for medical costs, well, the Affordable Care Act is an act but not affordable, sorry.
Trump is not trustworthy, and he loathes poor and retired people so do not vote for him.
Cliffs Notes anyone?
Bills are high, voters aren’t educated on the reasons bills are high, media’s failure to educate people and a general lack of civics knowledge has people blaming the President as if they’re a dictator that can change prices unilaterally and make laws without needing congress.
it's the economy, stupid