https://greedbane.substack.com/?r=4bnw9t&utm_medium=ios
Food prices rose 13% in 2023.
The top four meatpacking companies reported $34 billion in profits.
Corporations are using inflation as an excuse to gouge us.
The average student debt borrower owes $37,000.
The collective total in the U.S. is now $1.7 trillion.
Education should lift us up, not hold us down.
The cost of childcare in the U.S. has risen by 41% since 2010.
While wages for early childhood educators have barely increased.
Corporations profit while both workers and parents suffer.
In 2023, the average rent in the U.S. reached $2,053 per month.
A minimum-wage worker would need to work 112 hours a week to afford that without going into debt.
The average American household pays 14% of their income in taxes.
The 25 richest people in the U.S.? An average of just 8%.
Fair tax code? Doesn’t sound like it.
Corporate lobbying in 2023 cost companies $4 billion.
That’s more than double what Congress spent funding the entire Department of Labor.
Guess who’s writing the rules?
The top 20 pharmaceutical companies made over $500 billion in profits in the past 5 years!
Yet nearly 1 in 4 Americans skip medications because they can’t afford them.
Healthcare shouldn’t be a luxury.