News Summary

• A $20 meal became a right-wing media feud, exposing a party's broken promises.
• Inflationary pressures on grocery prices and supply chains have caused the cost of a standard beef burrito to climb 50% since 2020.
• For workers at the 50th percentile — the middle class — wages have not kept pace with fast-food prices, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics price index for limited-service meals and snacks.
• This is a remix of the lecture supposedly spoiled millennials, who refused to sacrifice every small pleasure on the altar of homeownership, heard for years about $7 lattes.