Rising cost of basic necessities could widen a gap between the well-off and everyone else

That is a situation in which higher-income consumers — insulated by home values and stock market gains — continue to spend ...
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Here’s just how much the cost of basic necessities has gone up in the past 5 years

The recent wave of skyrocketing egg prices has drawn even more attention to how much more consumers are currently spending on basic necessities — and pretty much everything else — even as inflation ...