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2022年06月11日

2022/6/11

US inflation accelerates to 40-year high
Rising gasoline, food and shelter costs drove much of the increase, data shows
US inflation hit the highest level since 1981 in May, US Labor Department data showed on Friday. Consumer prices soared 8.6% in May from 12 months earlier, faster than April’s year-over-year surge of 8.3%.
米労働省が金曜日に発表したデータによると、米国のインフレ率は5月に1981年以来の高水準に達した。5月の消費者物価は12ヶ月前より8.6％上昇し、4月の前年比8.3％の上昇を上回る勢いであった。
On a monthly basis, prices grew by 1% from April to May, a steep rise from the 0.3% increase from March to April. The surging food, gasoline, and rent prices have been imposing severe pressure on American families.

Research by the Bank of America Institute showed that petrol prices were eating up a larger share of consumers’ budgets. For lower-income households, spending on gasoline reached nearly 10% of all the expenses on credit and debit cards in the last week of May, the institute said in a report this week. That’s up from about 7.5% in February.

Meanwhile, prices at the pump are averaging nearly $5 a gallon nationally and edging closer to the inflation-adjusted record of about $5.40 reached in 2008.

Economists, cited by the Associated Press, expect inflation to ease this year, though not by very much. Some of them have forecast the consumer price index to drop below 7% by the year’s end.

Biden attempts to blame Putin for inflation
Responding to the worst inflation in 40 years, the US leader has stuck with blaming Russia
US President Joe Biden on Friday blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the record gas prices and 40-year-high inflation currently rocking the US. Amid dismal polling figures, Biden insisted that his administration is attempting to curb runaway costs.

Speaking at the Port of Los Angeles, Biden touted his administration’s efforts to ease supply-chain backlogs and called on Congress to crack down on global shipping companies that he claimed had unfairly jacked up their prices since the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, his speech came hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a grim report showing that consumer prices soared 8.6% in May from 12 months earlier, the highest rate of inflation since 1981. Food and gasoline prices rose by significantly more than 8.6%, with gas increasing by nearly 50% since last year, and reaching record highs in June.

Biden attempted to blame Putin for these costs in particular.

“Today’s inflation report confirms what Americans already know. Putin’s price hike is hitting America hard,” he declared. Insisting that the US job market is “the strongest it’s been since World War II,” Biden repeated “we’ve never seen anything like Putin’s tax on food and gas."
「今日のインフレレポートは、アメリカ人がすでに知っていることを確認するものだ。プーチンの値上げがアメリカに大きな打撃を与えている」と宣言した。アメリカの雇用市場は "第二次世界大戦以来最も強い "と主張し、バイデンは 「プーチンの食料とガスへの課税のようなものは見たことがない 」と繰り返した。

Healthcare workers calling in sick due to fuel prices – union
A UK union has warned the cost of fuel is stopping care workers from going to work
UK healthcare workers have been calling in sick because they can’t afford the petrol they need to get to work, public services union Unison revealed on Thursday. The possibility of widespread strikes looms in the coming months as the government has refused to increase wages, fearing a wage-price spiral fed by runaway inflation.
英国の医療従事者は、通勤に必要なガソリン代が払えないために病欠していることを、公共サービス労組ユニゾンが木曜日に明らかにした。政府は、インフレの暴走によって引き起こされる賃金価格スパイラルを恐れて賃金の引き上げを拒否しているため、今後数ヶ月の間に広範なストライキの可能性が迫ってきている。

Talks underway with militants on civilian exit from Azot plant, LPR envoy says
According to Rodion Miroshnik, up to 500 civilians may be hiding in bomb shelters at the plant
LUGANSK, June 11. /TASS/. Contact has been established with militants holed up in the Azot chemical plant in the city of Severodonetsk and talks are underway on providing civilians with a safe passage to leave the facility, the Lugansk People’s Republic’s (LPR) Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik wrote on Telegram on Saturday.

"Contact has been established with the militants, talks are underway on the safe withdrawal of civilians from the plant. Ukrainian forces will receive guarantees that their lives will be spared and they will be given humane treatment under the relevant international laws if they release the hostages, lay down their arms and surrender without conditions," he pointed out.

According to the envoy, up to 500 civilians may be hiding in bomb shelters at the plant. Up to 400 militants are holed up at the facility, he added.

Head of Russia’s National Defense Management Center Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev said earlier that Ukrainian militants, who were forcibly holding hundreds of Severodonetsk residents in the Azot plant’s underground facilities, planned to blow up chemical containers when retreating.
ルガンスク、6月11日。/セベロドネツク市のアゾット化学工場に立てこもる武装勢力と接触が成立し、民間人に安全な通路を提供し、施設から撤退するための話し合いが進められていると、ルガンスク人民共和国（LPR）のロディオン・ミロシュニック大使は土曜日にテレグラムに書き込んだ。

「武装勢力と接触し、工場から民間人を安全に撤退させるための話し合いが進められている。ウクライナ軍は、人質を解放し、武器を捨て、無条件降伏すれば、人命が保証され、関連する国際法の下で人道的な扱いを受ける」と指摘した。

特使によると、最大で500人の民間人がプラントの防空壕に隠れている可能性があるという。また、最大で400人の武装勢力が同施設に潜伏しているという。

ロシア国防管理センター長のミハイル・ミジンツェフ大佐は先に、セベロドネツクの住民数百人をアゾット工場の地下施設に強制収容していたウクライナの武装勢力は、撤退する際に化学容器を爆破する計画だったと述べている。

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