Britain once rioted over the price of bread. What would it take for us to confront greedflation today? | Andy Beckett

Britain once rioted over the price of bread. What would it take for us to confront greedflation today? | Andy Beckett

[ad_1] This country’s rate of inflation, the worst in western Europe, is everywhere in most people’s lives: in our anxious shopping and conversations, our late-night fears and fraught pay negotiations, our cancelled or rationed pleasures, and our sense of Britain’s shrinking possibilities. After the pandemic, Brexit, and years of austerity and political chaos, to be…

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Election officials confront a fractured future

Election officials confront a fractured future

[ad_1] Over the last year, five states with Republican chief election officials — Louisiana, Alabama, West Virginia, Missouri and Florida — all left ERIC. Some states have used outwardly conspiratorial-minded reasons for leaving — citing a secretive plot by liberals to take control of voter rolls. Other complaints are more about the structure of the…

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