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Actually almost all of them are sophisticated enough to read simple wording and understand it. Making excuses for people missing the plain obvious meaning of words like the headline is not good social policy.

What I posted about was your take on it when you wrote "Yes, of course. But the headline implies prices stayed steady. nt" You did not refer to anybody. You stated the implication (meaning) of the words of the headline and it sure seemed like you were believing it meant prices stayed steady. You did not refer to communicating to the poorly educated.

The way to communicate to the poorly educated ... and we mean for Democrats to communicate and the journalists and editors of the news organizaton are not working in the role of Democrats; at least we hope the professionals are not slanting the news even to favour Democrats ... The way for Democrats to communicate is to use plain words plainly.

Here are some plain words:

The longest word has eight letters. The poorly educated understand the first three words very clearly. They've heard enough about inflation to know that 2.7% is not as bad as 8 or 9 percent, which they've heard about recently. They know what the plain meaning of "less than expected" is. It's not rocket surgery. They know tariffs are in the news even if they hear very little news and they know people are worried about it.

It must be a very low opinion of the poorly educated to hold that they can't understand the word "rising" (six letters) and that we should use even simpler words.