🔺128% increase in food costs has reduced people’s purchasing power

▪Ilna news agency, citing inflation statistics, reported that the cost of the working households’ food basket in Tir increased by 128.1% compared to the same period last year.

▪According to this report, over the past year the cost of the working households’ food basket has increased by more than 128%; a figure that, as written by Ilna, has outpaced wage growth and intensified the burden of living expenses on workers, retirees, and other wage earners.

▪This news agency also wrote that the cost of the working households’ food basket in Tir of this year increased by 128.1% compared to the same period last year, but the minimum wage for workers increased by only 60%, and wages in other pay brackets increased by 45%.