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by Mountain_Skies 531 days ago
The outgoing administration claims food inflation was 0.3% over the last year. Do you think that's accurate or do you think they were cooking the stats? Can you answer without partisan glasses on?
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No, the Consumer Price Index shows (seasonally-adjusted) inflation of 0.3% over the last month. The increase for the food category over the past year is 8× higher than that.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm