Not for Fox Business: Barbecue (BBQ) is a noun. It is what you cook. It is not a verb or a description of cooking out all sorts of meats and having sides and a party
Your Memorial Day barbecue will cost upward of 10 percent more than it did this time last year according to Datasembly.
Datasembly follows the cost of groceries across the country every week. Its recently released data points to this year’s Memorial Day festivities costing the average American family about $30.18 or 10.19% more than 2023.
Here is a breakdown of Memorial Day cookout costs, according to Datasembly:
Burgers jumped from $7.04 in 2023 to $8.07 in 2024, or a change of 14.63% in cost. Hamburger buns cost two cents more, from $3.04 on average to $3.06.
Ketchup costs 10 cents more from 2023 prices, increasing from $5.43 to $5.53, and mustard increased from $2.53 to $2.61.
Most surprisingly, pickle relish is nearly 50% more expensive than in 2023, with a cost change from $3.14 to $4.67.
I wonder if the Biden regime will be trotting out a tweet and Talking Points that Americans are paying less, like they have in other years, or, just wait till Independence Day for that? Overall, we’re paying 20% more than we did since Biden assumed office.
The number of Americans who say they’re ‘doing OK financially’ drops to 4-year low—here’s why
The worst of inflation might be in the rear-view mirror, but the share of Americans who say they’re “doing OK financially” has hit a four-year low.
Among all U.S. adults, 72% say they were “doing OK” in 2023 — the lowest percentage since April 2020, according to an annual Federal Reserve survey released Tuesday. The sentiment has been trending down since 2021, when it was 78%.
Notably, the share of parents with kids who say they are doing OK dropped from 69% in 2022 to 64% in 2023.
We’re Americans: we should be doing better than “OK”.
