Hunger Games
The war in Iran is quietly repricing our life
📡 On my Radar
You probably didn’t notice when oil hit $100 a barrel last week. You will notice when ground beef hits $8 a pound this fall.
That’s how wars work when they’re far away. They don’t announce themselves at your front door. They show up in your grocery cart.
Rising gas prices are just the opening act.
Farmers who can't afford fertilizer this spring will produce smaller harvests this fall. Smaller harvests mean less livestock feed. Less feed means more expensive meat. By the time you feel it at the register, the cause will be six months old and 7,000 miles away.
This is how affordability crises are built: in a sequence most people never notice. A blockade becomes an oil spike becomes a diesel shortage becomes a smaller harvest becomes a crop yield becomes a grocery bill.
And it won't hit evenly. Low and middle income families already spend a larger share of their income on gas and groceries. They absorb these shocks first and recover last. This is an economic problem, which can become a political one. When people feel squeezed and can't explain why, they don't blame a strait they can't find on a map …they blame each other.
No one in Washington is talking about this. They're talking about the blockade. They're talking about the ceasefire. They're not talking about your grocery bill in October.
📈 By the Numbers
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JOB | Melissa Lockhart Fortner shares that Global Partnerships is hiring a Director of Development at their Seattle HQ to drive pipeline advancement for fund investors and philanthropic donors.
JOB | Jake Wood at Groundswell is hiring a Product Manager to join their team.
INTERNSHIP | Kimberly Roland shares that Desert Financial’s CSR and Foundation Programs team is seeking a detail-oriented intern with a passion for events and project management in corporate social responsibility.
OPPORTUNITY | Dreamily Williams shares that the National Association of Professional Staff in Public Safety is recruiting State Liaisons to represent professional staff leadership and connect the Association’s work across the country.
JOB | The City of San Francisco is hiring a Director of Innovation to lead civic innovation at one of the country’s most dynamic cities.
JOB | UN-Habitat’s Urban Resilience Hub is seeking a Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer specializing in anti-corruption at the P3 level on a temporary basis.
JOB | The ACLU of Southern California is hiring a Director of Education Equity to lead advocacy on education justice across Southern California and the state.
JOB (4) | The Howard University Institute for Advanced Study is building its founding team ahead of a fall launch, with multiple openings including Research Manager, Research Assistant, Social Media Coordinator, Administrative Assistant, and three roles at The Emancipator.
🤓 This is Your Next
Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
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