LP-201 ONE CRISIS, TWO FACES: Trump’s Policies, Higher Prices, More Pollution, Greater Inequality & a More Fragile Future — USA
ONE CRISIS, TWO FACES: Trump’s Policies, Higher Prices, More Pollution, Greater Inequality & a More Fragile Future — USA LP-201 Higher prices, more pollution, greater inequality and a more fragile future: evidence-based analysis of how Trump’s policies connect America’s cost-of-living crisis with the climate emergency. Evidence-based analysis of how Trump’s tariffs, fossil-fuel expansion and environmental deregulation can worsen US affordability, inequality, climate risk and democratic accountability. In the context of your One Crisis, Two Faces / Civic Empowerment Solutions (CES) framework, Trump's proposed $5,000 payment is important not simply because of the size of the cheque, but because it illustrates the relationship between cost-of-living pressure, political power, public finance, democratic accountability and the climate crisis. 1. What Trump has actually proposed On 9 September 2026, Donald Trump told the Republican midterm convention in Dallas tha...