(ZEROHEDGE) – As long as you don't eat food, use energy, or clean your home (assuming you are not homeless), the pandemic has been good to you.
For low-income Americans, it has been a double-whammy of job losses (the total number of Americans receiving jobless benefits from the government has basically stagnated for the last four months) and significant increases in the costs of living.
As Bloomberg reports, while the headline consumer inflation rate in the U.S. remains subdued, at 1.7% – but it masks large differences in what people actually buy.
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