That 55% figure has been true of New York for decades. The ubiquity of public transit has historically offset the costs: since people aren’t making car payments, the portion of their income that would go to that gets spread across other spending.
I would be more interested to see figures in more car-oriented areas for a better apples-to-apples.
In case Google incorrectly identifies someone as under 18, users can submit a photo of their government ID or a selfie to verify their age.
So Google is going to incorrectly identify damn near everyone as a minor now, right?
Most companies have been taking it on the chin for now: eating the cost of the tariffs and taking a reduced profit to maintain prices and help foster consumer confidence while they wait and see how all the tariff negotiations actually play out.
With regards to the original question, inflation is measured across all consumer purchasing. So prices on goods (groceries, cars, computing hardware, etc) can increase significantly, but if the price on services (Netflix, restaurants, laundromats, etc) stays relatively flat, inflation ends up looking better than it feels.
NPR as a national organization might be fine, but regional stations have smaller operating budgets and also get funding, and their programming gets picked up. Member stations will suffer or fail under this update, and that will feed back to national programming when something like WAMC’s On the Media or WBEZ’s Wait Wait gets axed.
I was paraphrasing both OP and yourself to create a farce, yes. Because farces are funny. It was a joke, not a clever and cutting rhetorical maneuver.
So, yeah, sucks a little that you took it so personally, but I do feel pretty good about it.
“I think the system is unfair and could be dramatically improved.”
“This is the improved version! No further progress shall be made! Work your 9-5 and be glad you’re not locked in the shirtwaist factory for twelve hours a day!”
I know a few millennial homeowners, and almost every one falls into one of two categories: they were gifted the home (or down payment) from a family member; or they married a Gen-X doctor in 2007 and bought right after the market crashed in 2008 and they’ve watched their home value quadruple since then.
That’s it. Have family that’s well-off enough, or marry someone that had money at the right time to exploit a financial disaster.
never mention it in relation to My Chemical Romance
But “Vampire Money” is an absolute banger written specifically to make fun of all the other bands lining up to be on Twilight soundtracks while MCR turned down offers multiple times.
We read very different books. I thought the first half was hilarious, but it lulled me into a comfort of the absurdity and the banality that set up an absolutely devastating second half.
I think it’s one of the greatest books I’ve ever read, but I don’t think it was a comedy.
Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.
Stokely Carmichael, one of SNCC’s first freedom riders
My company instituted “Wellbeing Days.” They marked three days throughout the year on everyone’s calendar and said you should avoid answering calls or attending meetings on those days, instead focusing on personal reflection and development.
… so I stayed home and focused on developing my Elden Ring skills.
Many states have closed primary elections prior to the general election. So three or four candidates from the same party are campaigning against each other for the right to be the candidate in the general election, and the only people that can vote in this preliminary election are registered party members.