The article focuses on wages outpacing inflation as solution.<p>But why is no one focusing on why food prices are still increasing so much? We're long past shortages of COVID.<p>It seems there has been an unchecked rise in food supplier oligopolies which allows a small number of companies to collude<p>-Big potato: <a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-rise-of-big-potato/" rel="nofollow">https://www.levernews.com/the-rise-of-big-potato/</a><p>-Big meat: <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/karen-perry-stillerman/will-the-biden-administration-take-down-americas-meat-cartel/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.ucsusa.org/karen-perry-stillerman/will-the-bide...</a><p>-10 companies own most of the world's food brands: <a href="https://www.good.is/this-infographic-shows-how-only-10-companies-own-all-the-worlds-food-brands" rel="nofollow">https://www.good.is/this-infographic-shows-how-only-10-compa...</a>
Here's the bill I want to see passed: No more pay raises, ever, for members of congress and the executives in the executive branch. If they want a pay raise, they can lower the country's inflation rate to increase their purchasing power.