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Look at the data, doom-and-gloomers — food costs aren’t what you think

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Voters have a God-given right to complain. That’s why we have politics. 

It wouldn’t hurt, though, if we occasionally took a minute to place our problems in historical context.

Otherwise, we risk falling into a doom-and-gloom spiral that threatens to undo our grasp on reality. 

Polls show that two-thirds of the American public consider groceries to be “unaffordable.”

The anxiety over prices is driving people to embrace socialist ideas like Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $70 million city-owned supermarket chain.

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And it’s the reason why many right-wing economic populists are pestering President Trump to stop fighting Iran so he can “focus” on lowering food prices.

Sorry, but they’re all wrong: We’re not living through an unprecedented food crisis.

In 1901, the average American family spent 42% of its disposable budget on food, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In 1945 it was 23%. In 1965 it was 15%. In 1985 it was around 12%.

Today, per Agriculture Department calculations, it’s 9.7%.

Mamdani’s grocery stores will be the most expensive markets in NYC — paid for by you,........

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