In America, Food Is Getting Cheaper ... Unless You’re Poor - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic Cities
▻http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/03/america-food-getting-cheaper-unless-youre-poor/4923
But “average household” doesn’t mean much in a country where the top 20 percent earns 15 times the bottom 20 percent. So how do poor families food budgets compare to the rich — and how that changed over the last 30 years?
The short answer is that relative food costs are low and falling fast for everybody — but they’re not falling for the poor.
In 1984, the poorest Americans spent 16 percent* of their income to eat. The median-income family also spent 16 percent of its (slightly higher) income on food. And the rich spent the least. In the last three decades, food’s share of the family budget has fallen for all but the poorest families, where it’s stayed the same.