Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦2d ago

Did you miss yesterday's.city council votes?

"Toronto City Council has approved a pilot project that would see the City operate its own grocery stores in an effort to reduce food costs for shoppers.

Councillor Anthony Peruzza, for Humber River—Black Creek, pushed for a pilot project to open four nonprofit grocery stores across the city, aiming to make everyday groceries more affordable in low-income neighbourhoods."

https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2026/03/toronto-nonprofit-grocery-stores/?oly_enc_id=7565J1056034B3B
#Toronto #affordabilityCrisis #experimental

Toronto is getting City-run nonprofit grocery stores with cheaper prices

Toronto City Council has approved a pilot project that would see the City operate its own grocery stores in an effort to reduce food costs for shoppe…

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Cheaper than Campbell’s soup. Let that sink in for a moment…

#AffordabilityCrisis #IncomeInequality

The-14Feb 27
Slaying myths about income support
#Canada #AffordabilityCrisis #FoodInsecurity #Inequality #Inflation #IncomeSupport #GSTCredit #CostOfLiving #PublicPolicy #CanadianEconomy #WealthInequality #SocialPolicy #Politics #Poverty
https://the-14.com/slaying-myths-about-income-support/
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WYM ModFeb 26
Are American families truly thriving? Senator Elizabeth Warren challenges President Trump's affordability claims, stating his policies contradict daily struggles with rising costs for food, housing, and electricity, partly due to tariffs. She pledges further scrutiny of administration policies, setting a tone for the 2026 midterms. Learn more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/warren-calls-trumps-bluff-on-affordability-after-state-of-the-union.html #AffordabilityCrisis #EconomicPolicy #ConsumerPrices
Show threadA Guy Named Brian (he/him)Feb 26

… For this reason, a reduction of transit is an attack on affordability for the average American, especially for working-class people who already face mounting burdens of housing instability, soaring utility costs, and high grocery bills.”

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#Politics #USPolitics #PublicTransit #TransitFunding #FundingCuts #TrumpTransitCuts #TrumpWarOnTheWorkingClass #AffordabilityCrisis #Transportation #UrbanPlanning #TransitPlanning

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Feb 26

“Between loan or lease payments, insurance, fuel, maintenance, and repairs, car drivers in the United States pay an average of $1,015 per month to own and maintain a vehicle. Cash-strapped families would have to take this monthly amount away from their housing and grocery budgets. …

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#Politics #USPolitics #PublicTransit #TransitFunding #FundingCuts #TrumpTransitCuts #TrumpWarOnTheWorkingClass #AffordabilityCrisis #Transportation #UrbanPlanning #TransitPlanning

https://jacobin.com/2026/02/trump-administration-transportation-funding-cuts/

Trump Is Cutting Transit Funding Left and Right

Donald Trump’s new transportation proposal will hurt transit funding in every single American state, undermining affordability across the board. From red states to blue states, and from drivers to nondrivers, everyone will feel the impact.

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Outstanding news, everybody!

(To anyone complaining about not being able to make rent or buy food: why didn’t you just invest in bank stocks?!!) /s

#KShapedEconomy #AffordabilityCrisis
#NeoLiberalism

Political Bill SCFeb 25

Trump Derangement Syndrome is seeing these results and still claiming it's good for America.

#TrumpTariffs #Tariffs #HigherPrices #AffordabilityCrisis

https://thehill.com/business/5745196-donald-trump-tariffs-impact-trade/

Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦Feb 10
#affordabilityCrisis
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Mike. 🩼🇨🇦 (@[email protected])

"Asking rents in Canada fell two per cent year-over-year in January to an average of $2,057, marking the 16th consecutive month of annual rent decreases.' meanwhile anyone on #Disability in #Ontario, #ODSP, knows you get a maximum of $522 for rent (single person), and it took me 3 years to get on ODSP. Don't nobody need to ever ask again why homeless populations are EXPLODING #Politics #CdnPoli https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/real-estate/article/average-asking-rents-in-canada-fall-for-16th-straight-month-report/

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Egberto WilliesFeb 3

Texas Shock: Working-Class Democrat Wins Deep-Red Senate District

A union machinist shattered political myths by flipping one of Texas’s reddest districts. Here’s why working-class politics still win.

#affordabilityCrisis #HealthcareAccess #LaborMovement #ProgressiveVictories #RedDistrictFlipped #TexasDemocrats #texasPolitics #TexasSenateRace #UnionPolitics #WorkingClassVoters https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oEw