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"What we expect is even greater increases in the number of kids feeling hopeless when all they're trying to do is live their lives."

“So what we expect is even greater increases in the number of kids feeling hopeless when all they're trying to do is live their lives.”

That’s in part why you have all this crazy ticket-splitting, where people vote for minimum wage increases and on the same ballot vote for Republicans who block those increases every time they come up for a vote.

Add that to the Yale Budget Lab’s estimate of more than 5 percent inflation from the more extreme versions of Trump’s tariff scenarios, and you have the recipe for an inflationary spiral that would make post-pandemic price increases look like a gentle hill that we climbed happily together on a languid summer afternoon.

But here is where the interests of the incoming Trump regime align with those of us who surely would not like to endure another round of price increases for the sake of carrying out the single most morally unconscionable national domestic policy since the internment of Japanese citizens during World War II.