After months of climbing, food inflation reaches 6.3 percent

Meat prices fell in the final weeks of 2021, but food inflation climbed again, to an annual rate of 6.3 percent, said the Labor Department on Wednesday. The overall U.S. inflation rate of 7 percent for the past 12 months was the highest since June 1982. The annualized food inflation rate has been on the… » Read More

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