Pushed by high meat prices, food inflation rate hits 7 percent
Food prices are rising at a faster and faster rate, reported the Labor Department on Thursday. Food inflation, a modest 2.2 percent a year last May, started 2022 at a 7 percent gallop, the eighth month in a row the rate has gone up. The Consumer Price Index report pegged the U.S. inflation rate at… » Read More
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