Mortgage Payments, Gas & Grocery Prices Keep Going Up
The monthly mortgage payment for a $400,000 loan in January 2021 was $1,612. In January 2024, the same payment was $2,555 a month — a 58.5% increase.
Gas prices in January 2021 were at, $2.42 per gallon. In January 2024, it was $3.20 per gallon. That is up 32% for three years. SOURCE: The U.S. Energy Information Administration
The cost of steak is up 30% since January 2021. SOURCE: Chris Pandolfo, “How It Started … How It’s Going: Prices of eggs, milk, steak up since Biden took office,: Fox Business, 3/8/24
The Human Cost of War
The number of casualties in Gaza since October 7 has exceeded 29,000. SOURCE: Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, “More than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since war’s start, health ministry says, PBS News Hour, 2/19/24
The number of casualties in the Afghan war was as follows: 46,000 in Afghanistan and 67,000 Pakistanis — more than 70,000 combined. SOURCE: “Costs of War,” Watson Institute of International & Public Affairs at Brown University
The number of casual civilian casualties from the Iraq war. 300,000.- There have been between 280,771 and 315,190 Iraqi civilians killed by direct violence since the U.S. invasion. SOURCE: “Costs of War,” Watson Institute of International & Public Affairs at Brown University