I just looked at my older Walmart receipts. The cost of milk went from $1.35/gallon in February 2020 to over $4/gallon in 2022. Milk is just a quick and easy example. I’m sure I could find countless other examples if I took the time.
These odd local anecdotes are so silly - the benefit of having a Federal bureaucracy tracking prices is that they keep detailed records. Here's the nominal price of a gallon of milk over the last 25 years:
The average in Feb 2020 was $3.19/gallon. Today it's $4.15/gallon. So roughly 30% increase since then. The average cost of a gallon of milk since the mid 1990s has never been below $2.40/gallon so maybe that $1.35 you paid was a result of a panic during the early pandemic?
Another contributing factor in my opinion is that companies would rather outsource entry level dev work to foreign countries with cheaper labor. I have a feeling this will backfire in the coming years as companies struggle to find sufficiently experienced senior devs.
> The vote leaves the library with funds through the first quarter of next year. Once a reserve fund is used up, it would be forced to close, Larry Walton, the library board’s president, told Bridge Michigan – harming not just readers but the community at large.
Can anyone knowledgeably comment on the accuracy of this statement?
That doesn't seem like the only option here, if I understand correctly they only declined a tax increase so the library could perhaps live on with reduced services.
If you’re on iOS, I highly recommend WideProtect [1] which allows you to define filters matching a range of numbers based on prefix. For example, you can block all numbers from a specific area code that you receive a lot of spam calls from. It has been an absolute lifesaver for me.
