Make Living Affordable Again: Demand Lower Costs for Rent and Groceries!

The Issue

Bring down the costs of living and groceries!

This is a global dysfunction, unfortunately, it's more of a mess here in the US. Families were already struggling working dead end jobs and getting very little pay, all to survive and keep a roof over their heads so they're not homeless with children. The cost of rent has skyrocketed since 2020, why keep raising rent prices over a pandemic we had no control over? Management companies and slumlords have all benefited from government supplements after 2020 because people couldn't pay their rent because they couldn't work; so why raise the costs of rent?

Groceries are just about to keep us all broke! Grocery store chains claim it's because they had to out source because of 2020s pandemic drama, yet, they're still wasting food daily by what's not getting sold. They're not even donating food to shelters or discount stores! Stores claim to have lost their suppliers during the pandemic, but I don't see anyone chain of stores without said foods! I have a family of 4, and our cost of groceries for just one month is about 2 mortgage payments, thats over $2800! So now we have to make a decision, eat, or keep a roof over our heads. I'm a chef as well so it's doubly hard to keep my prices fair for my clients.

No one wins except the management companies and grocery stores; we're going broke and struggling harder to survive, while they're making their own rules, and living lavishly.

IT NEEDS TO STOP! SIGN THIS PETITION AND MAKE YOUR VOICE MATTER!

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The Issue

Bring down the costs of living and groceries!

This is a global dysfunction, unfortunately, it's more of a mess here in the US. Families were already struggling working dead end jobs and getting very little pay, all to survive and keep a roof over their heads so they're not homeless with children. The cost of rent has skyrocketed since 2020, why keep raising rent prices over a pandemic we had no control over? Management companies and slumlords have all benefited from government supplements after 2020 because people couldn't pay their rent because they couldn't work; so why raise the costs of rent?

Groceries are just about to keep us all broke! Grocery store chains claim it's because they had to out source because of 2020s pandemic drama, yet, they're still wasting food daily by what's not getting sold. They're not even donating food to shelters or discount stores! Stores claim to have lost their suppliers during the pandemic, but I don't see anyone chain of stores without said foods! I have a family of 4, and our cost of groceries for just one month is about 2 mortgage payments, thats over $2800! So now we have to make a decision, eat, or keep a roof over our heads. I'm a chef as well so it's doubly hard to keep my prices fair for my clients.

No one wins except the management companies and grocery stores; we're going broke and struggling harder to survive, while they're making their own rules, and living lavishly.

IT NEEDS TO STOP! SIGN THIS PETITION AND MAKE YOUR VOICE MATTER!

The Decision Makers

Dean Phillips
Former U.S. House of Representatives - Minnesota 3rd Congressional District
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