One in three consumers expect inflation to worsen this fall
The U.S. inflation rate is the lowest in three and a half years, but six of 10 consumers say inflation affects them more now than it did three months ago, and more than one-third of them expect inflation will be worse in November than it is now, according to a University of Illinois survey. Republicans held the gloomiest views.
We’re being scapegoated, says meat industry
With Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris expected to call for action against "corporate price gouging in the food and grocery industries," the meat industry said on Thursday that it is not to blame for high prices. "Americans are seeing inflation in every part of their livelihoods — rent, gas, automobiles, furniture — not just in the meat case," said the National Chicken Council, speaking for the broiler chicken industry.
Despite threat of fines, jail time, price gouging still rampant in California farmworker communities
People in some of California’s poorest towns still face exorbitant prices on staple foods more than a month after the governor declared a state of emergency that made price gouging illegal. The practice has been particularly insidious in farmworker towns like El Centro, in the Imperial Valley, and Delano, in the San Joaquin Valley. In both towns, like so many of the state’s farmworker communities, more than a quarter of residents live in poverty and most are Latino.(No paywall)