Source: WRAL TECHWIRE, 1/21/22

From the price of milk to the cost of gasoline, inflation is a real problem for North Carolina.   According to numbers released last week, the consumer price index jumped 7% between December 2020 and 2021,the biggest leap since 1982. Over the same period, prices rose 5.5%, the highest rate since 1991. Families are struggling to make ends meet, and businesses are having challenges to turn a profit. But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a solution: double the number of legal immigrants.”We need more workers. We should welcome people who want to come here, go to school and stay,” Chamber CEO Suzanne Clark told reporters last week.

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