Since I am currently unemployed, I have time to stew and rant.
So that's what I'm going to do.

Has anyone been to the grocery store lately?

$1.69 for a Banquet Pot Pie

What do you expect when you keep raising minimum wage?
Lower employment for the part time teenagers, higher costs.
I understood that concept when I was 16.
That "rising tide raises all boats" concept is true.
The tide in this case is wages. You up the wages, then everything else goes up with it.
So the ones that are making minimum wage do not have increased buying power, even though income is higher.

It's always been a political ploy to fool the unintelligent masses.
And it is running this country into the ground.