{"id":97989,"date":"2023-11-23T16:27:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97989"},"modified":"2023-11-23T16:28:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:28:20","slug":"97989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97989","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, the 50% increase in the grocery tab is a figment of my imagination&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gavin-newsom-implies-inflation-pains-are-a-conservative-lie\">Gavin Newsom Implies Inflation Pains Are A Conservative Lie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) implied this week that the inflation pains Americans are feeling this Thanksgiving are simply a lie pushed by conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings you won\u2019t see on Fox News today,\u201d Newsom posted Wednesday on X. \u201cPrices for Thanksgiving are down \u2014 from Turkey to air travel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newsom\u2019s post included a chart showing price changes according to Labor Department data. Prices for peas, milk, stuffing, pie crusts, turkey, and cranberries have dropped from last year, according to the chart.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Things you won\u2019t see on Fox News today\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Prices for Thanksgiving are down &#8212; from Turkey to air travel.<\/p>\n<p>Average hourly wage is up &#8212; almost 4.4% from over a year ago, 18% from 3 years ago. That\u2019s nearly the best 3-year gain in 40 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q0MhCzADeY\">pic.twitter.com\/Q0MhCzADeY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GavinNewsom\/status\/1727353891711504714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, inflation is only just cooling off after spiking during the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the average price of a Thanksgiving meal hit a record high. While prices of some items have dipped this year from last year\u2019s record highs, prices are still higher than they were before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the average cost of a Thanksgiving meal for 10 people is $61.17, down 4.5% from last year\u2019s $64.05 average cost, according to a report from the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, this year\u2019s price is still 14.7% higher than the $53.31 that a Thanksgiving meal cost in 2021, and a whopping 25% higher than the $48.91 in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough survey prices have begun to come down, food price inflation remains a real issue and serves as a constraint on the budget of all U.S. consumers,\u201d the AFBF wrote in its report.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom also claimed the 18% increase in the average hourly wage compared to three years ago is \u201cnearly the best 3-year gain in 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the skyrocketing inflation of the past three years has not allowed workers to enjoy their increased wages as much they might have liked.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation has been a major concern for Americans since the pandemic, from groceries to gas prices and other necessities.<\/p>\n<p>Two thirds of people say their expenses have risen, and only a quarter say their income has risen, according to a poll last month from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.<\/p>\n<p>About 75% of those surveyed described the economy as poor.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Halloween candy prices saw double-digit inflation for the second year in a row, spiking a whopping 13% since October last year.<\/p>\n<p>In September, gas prices in some Southern California counties again skyrocketed to an average of over $6 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, last month a report from the Alliance for Consumers estimated that the Biden administration\u2019s rules and regulations may have forced a $9,000 price tag on American homeowners due to price hikes related to cars, washing machines, gas stoves, and dishwashers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, the 50% increase in the grocery tab is a figment of my imagination&#8230;. Gavin Newsom Implies Inflation Pains Are A Conservative Lie. California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) implied this week that the inflation pains Americans are feeling this Thanksgiving are simply a lie pushed by conservatives. \u201cThings you won\u2019t see on Fox News today,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-you-cant-make-this-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97991,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97989\/revisions\/97991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}