How relentless food inflation is becoming Biden's major hot potato

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April 11, 2024

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Inflation rose to 3.5% in March, an unexpected increase that continued to crush Americans wallets and President Bidens approval rating.

Despite repeated promises that inflation was transitory, inflation has remained high throughout the presidents term, and hes backed off using the term Bidenomics as people have bristled at high costs , particularly in restaurants and grocery stores.

The Consumer Price Index which tracks the changes in the costs of everyday goods and services noted surging prices for everything from gasoline to housing to car insurance.

But an increase in food costs also was a major culprit, according to government data.

Its the latest uncomfortable month for President Biden, who on Wednesday accused big food manufacturers and supermarket chains for using high prices to pad their bottom lines.

Im calling on corporations including grocery retailers to use record profits to reduce prices, Biden said Wednesday.

But retailers also have been hit hard by higher costs: New minimum wage legislation, higher taxes and the increase in prices for everything from construction supplies to oil and gas caused by massive government spending over the past few years.

While Biden admitted that prices are still too high for groceries, he claimed that prices for key household items like milk and eggs are lower than a year ago.

Nevertheless, the price of meats, poultry, fish and eggs rose 1.3% in March driven by eggs whopping 4.6% increase last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.

The price of a dozen grade-A eggs has surged a blistering 103.4% since January 2021 to $2.99, according to data from the US Inflation Calculator, which tracks changes in the price of basic food staples based on the monthly CPI.

Overall, the food at home index which tracks prices at supermarkets rose 1.2% over the past 12 months, with fruits and vegetables advancing 2% over the year.

Indeed, every major staple, including bananas, beef, bread, coffee and ice cream Bidens favorite campaign snack have shot up in price since he took office.

Coffee was also among the most hopped-up pantry items, rising nearly 30% since Biden began his term, to an average of $5.96 per pound.

Other staples that rose between 26% and 29% between January 2021 and March 2024: Chicken breast, which now averages $4.11 per pound; as well as ground beef and sirloin steak, which experienced a $1.16 and $2.39 price-per-pound increase in that period, respectively, per the US Inflation Calculator.

White bread was up nearly 50 cents, or 29%, to $2, and rice will run shoppers about $1.01 these days 28% more than in January 2021.

In addition, consumers looking to keep a sweet treat in their pantry can expect to shell out roughly 40% more, or about $5.15, for a one-pound package of chocolate chip cookies than they did three years ago.

The cost of a one-pound bag of flour has also surged more than 26% during Bidens term.

As inflation remains stubbornly high, its impact on food costs have been thrust to the center of political debates ahead of the 2024 presidential election in November, where Biden and Donald Trump are expected to go head-to-head.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. weighed in on X on Monday, accusing Biden of trying to gaslight us into believing that inflation is coming down, citing how the price of butter, eggs, milk, peanut butter and toilet paper have gone up since he took the oath of office three years ago.

President Biden should be telling Americans that their anger is right and justified, Kennedy said.

President Biden is trying to gaslight us into believing that inflation is coming down. I understand the pain Americans are suffering from high prices. Since he took the oath of office three years ago

Butter is up from $3.58 to $4.75
12 Eggs up from $2.36 to $3.54
Milk up from

Trumps official Super PAC launched a website last month dubbed Biden-Mart that lets users compare Trump-era grocery prices to current costs under Bidens administration.

There are over two dozen common food staples to choose from. The Post clicked off a grocery list of items to see the impact Bidenomics has had over the last three years.

A two-pound bag of apples, two pounds of ground beef, seven lemons, one gallon of milk and one pound of sugar and coffee each totaled $30.07 a whopping 57.11% increase from the $19.14 it cost during the Trump administration, per Biden-Mart, which used data from the United States Department of Agriculture data to compare the prices from January 2021 when Trump left office with January 2024.

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At least two dead and eight critically injured in US university shooting

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December 14, 2025

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At least two dead and eight critically injured in US university shooting

At least two people have been killed and eight others critically injured in a shooting on the campus of Brown University in Rhode Island, officials have said.

The incident is believed to be unfolding near an engineering building on the campus, according to the school’s alert system.

Providence Police and the Rhode Island State Police are responding.

It is unclear at the moment whether arrests have been made.

Brown University says no suspects are in custody and that additional shots may have been fired.

US President Donald Trump corrected an earlier post he shared online, clarifying that a suspect was not in custody. In his previous post, he had stated that a suspect was in custody.

University officials initially told students and staff that a suspect was in custody, but later said this was not the case and police were still searching for a suspect or suspects.

Officials noted that the information remained preliminary as investigators try to determine what has occurred.

Police are actively investigating and still gathering information from the scene, said Kristy DosReis, the chief public information officer for the city of Providence.

The shooting was reported near the Barus & Holley building, a seven-storey structure that houses the School of Engineering and Physics Department, according to the school’s website.

It includes 117 laboratories, 150 offices and 15 classrooms.

Brown is a private university with roughly 7,300 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate students.

Providence Council member John Goncalves, whose ward includes the Brown campus, said: “We’re still getting information about what’s going on, but we’re just telling people to lock their doors and to stay vigilant.

“As a Brown alum, someone who loves the Brown community and represents this area, I’m heartbroken. My heart goes out to all the family members and the folks who’ve been impacted.”

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Specialist teams and online investigators deployed across England and Wales to tackle ‘national emergency’ of violence against women and girls

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December 14, 2025

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Specialist teams and online investigators deployed across England and Wales to tackle 'national emergency' of violence against women and girls

Specialist investigation teams for rape and sexual offences are to be created across England and Wales as the Home Secretary declares violence against women and girls a “national emergency”.

Shabana Mahmood said the dedicated units will be in place across every force by 2029 as part of Labour’s violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy due to be launched later this week.

The use of Domestic Abuse Protection Orders (DAPOs), which had been trialled in several areas, will also be rolled out across England and Wales. They are designed to target abusers by imposing curfews, electronic tags and exclusion zones.

The orders cover all forms of domestic abuse, including economic abuse, coercive and controlling behaviour, stalking and ‘honour’-based abuse. Breaching the terms can carry a prison term of up to 5 years.

Nearly £2m will also be spent funding a network of officers to target offenders operating within the online space.

Teams will use covert and intelligence techniques to tackle violence against women and girls via apps and websites.

A similar undercover network funded by the Home Office to examine child sexual abuse has arrested over 1,700 perpetrators.

Abuse is ‘national emergency’

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said in a statement: “This government has declared violence against women and girls a national emergency.

“For too long, these crimes have been considered a fact of life. That’s not good enough. We will halve it in a decade.

“Today we announce a range of measures to bear down on abusers, stopping them in their tracks. Rapists, sex offenders and abusers will have nowhere to hide.”

The target to halve violence against women and girls in a decade is a Labour manifesto pledge.

The government said the measures build on existing policy, including facial recognition technology to identify offenders, improving protections for stalking victims, making strangulation a criminal offence and establishing domestic abuse specialists in 999 control rooms.

Labour has ‘failed women’

But the Conservatives said Labour had “failed women” and “broken its promises” by delaying the publication of the violence against women and girls strategy.

Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp, said that Labour “shrinks from uncomfortable truths, voting against tougher sentences and presiding over falling sex-offender convictions. At every turn, Labour has failed women.”