Good Time, Bad Times

It’s lonely at the top. It’s also not that healthy and not that happy. It turns that the roaring American economy that “has grown faster than every other high-income economy over the past few decades” has made the nation an economic superpower but has left many of its citizens struggling to keep the power on. There are a lot of factors. But they key one is the same factor that underpins so many of our sociopolitical stories: The economic divide. NYT Upshot (Gift Article): The U.S. Economy Is Racing Ahead. Almost Everything Else Is Falling Behind. (And yes, this is of course directly related to the fact that millions of Americans voted a certain way because of inflation, embodied in the price of eggs, and what they’re getting is a billionaire running the country in a way that, among other things, will expand the very divide that drove the voting patterns.)

+ Homelessness is at the extreme end of inequality scale. And it is a growing (and intractable) problem in many of our wealthiest communities. Kevin Fagen has been covering this topic on the streets of San Francisco for decades. What I Learned From 32 Years of Writing About Homelessness.

+ And about those eggs. The soaring price of eggs has forced Waffle House to add a temporary surcharge on customers’ orders. No, folks. Biden didn’t make eggs cost more. And Trump isn’t doing it either. The only people who still believe that are one surcharged egg short of a dozen.

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