Cost of living crisis

Inflation, the high cost of living, and the post-coronavirus lockdown landscape have created the “perfect storm” for restaurants across the country to fail, analysis shows.

About two-thirds of households at the bottom 20 percent of the income bracket pay over half their income in rent and utilities, a Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies recently found.

Three U.S. cities are among the top 10 costliest places to live in the world, according to the latest cost-of-living report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

The average U.S. household needs an extra $11,434 per year to maintain the same standard of living as before inflation hit record highs in 2021.

A German supermarket chain raised the price of food items in order to demonstrate the alleged “true price” to the environment.

One in seven adults faced food insecurity in the UK in the year leading up to the middle of 2022, the Trussell Trust found this week.

The cost of living crisis in the United Kingdom has seen nearly three-quarters of a million Britons miss a housing payment last month.

Food prices in Britain hit their highest level in 45 years amid continued double-digit inflation, while wages fell yet again in real terms.

Emmanuel Macron was greeted with the sounds of pots and pans as people protested his first public outing since signing his pension reform.

Thousands rallied again in the Czech capital on Sunday to protest high inflation and the government’s support of the war in Ukraine.

A four-day strike planned by tens of thousands of doctors in England could lead to the postponement of a quarter-million medical appointments.

Over four in ten people in the lowest income bracket in France are cutting meals as food inflation increased by 15 per cent in the past year.

Violent protests continued in Paris again on Tuesday on the tenth straight day of demonstrations against the globalist Macron government.

UK inflation rose again in February to over 10 per cent amid rising food prices, the country’s office for national statistics has confirmed.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The humble egg has become a star performer for all the wrong reasons as inflation has hit households across the European Union extremely hard over the year.

Homelessness in England has risen by over a quarter over last year as thousands of migrants are put up in hotels at taxpayer expense.

Less than one third of teachers walked out of their classrooms this week as the vast majority of schools remaining open to some extent.

British Gas employed debt collecting contractors who broke into the homes of vulnerable people to install prepayment meters.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Central Bank chugged ahead with another outsized interest rate hike Thursday and vowed more to come, underlining its drive to subdue inflation even as the European economy slows and the U.S. Federal Reserve eases its pace of increases.

LONDON (AP) – The Bank of England raised interest rates by half a percentage point Thursday as it sought to tame double-digit inflation that is fueling a cost-of-living crisis, public-sector strikes and fears of recession.

The worldwide food and fuel crises saw a spike in protests in countries across Europe in 2022, research by the American University has found.

Well over one-third of Europeans have been left struggling to pay their bill amid the ongoing cost inflation crisis, a government survey has revealed.

LONDON (AP) – UK government ministers are meeting trade union leaders on Monday in a bid to end a wave of strikes that has hobbled the rail network and strained the overburdened health system.

Swedish grocers are sounding the alarm over a recent surge in food thefts across the country, particularly meat products. 

Britons should try and avoid getting drunk as the country’s NHS socialised healthcare service will struggle to look after them, a chief from the organisation has agreed.

Nigel Farage suggested that if the Conservative Party wants to regain credibility, it should apologise for over a decade of mismanagement.

Harry and Meghan are being upbraided for living a jet-setting multi-millionaire lifestyle at odds with their climate activism and “obscene” self-pitying amid a cost of living crisis following the release of their tearful Netflix docu-series.

Turkey, pork, and other Christmas day staples have all seen price spikes of around 20 per cent or more amid Britain’s inflation crisis.

The Olaf Scholz government has mishandled “everything” during the energy crisis, resulting in economic calamity, a German MEP told Breitbart.

Antifa activists brawled with police on Saturday during an attempt to disrupt a protest against the sanctions war with Russia.

Real wages in Britain are not expected to return to 2008 levels until 2027 due in part to the financial mismanagement of the Tory government.

Supermarkets in the UK have reportedly begun rationing eggs as the supply of the staple food is drastically impacted by both bird flu and the ongoing inflation crisis.

Food prices in Germany have spiked by just under 40 per cent over last year, with potatoes spiking by as much as 70 per cent in 12 months.

Younger generations in Britain will be the worst hit by rising energy bills, a think tank in the country has claimed.

The ‘cash-strapped’ government, now preparing tax hikes, will overspend on its aid budget by around £1 billion due to the migrant influx.

A hotel in a quiet Welsh village with just 400 residents is being rammed full of some 200 migrants, at a cost of £6.8 million to British taxpayers.