Source: Vanessa Romo, WUNC, 3/31/22


"All food prices are now predicted to increase between 4.5 and 5.5%," the USDA's Economic Research Service explained in the March report. The United States Department of Agriculture released an update to its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and found that nearly everything one might ingest – whether it comes from the grocery store or restaurant – is going up in price. And yes, that's on top of the price increases consumers have already been forced to endure in the last year.

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