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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

… 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

“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.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/business-hbgr2piuz/-/a-OP8jIjbFQT-EWp-gTaXJSQ%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0

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

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/

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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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

Le Grand entretien : L'économie à l'épreuve de la méthode Trump

https://vid.freedif.org/w/dzF1PwcKYmr2PZJvCrPTdo

Le Grand entretien : L'économie à l'épreuve de la méthode Trump

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