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Big Ag price gouging is driving still elevated grocery store prices. When will that become a political issue?

Jerome Powell's efforts to navigate monetary policy through a white-hot election year just got more complicated.

Sarah Beth Ryther would love to have a car, her own apartment and eventually a child. But she thinks that seems unreachable as, like most of her co-workers at Trader Joe's in Minneapolis, she earns $16 to $20 an hour. A family "is something I definitely can't afford. I don't make enough to pay for health care," she said, let alone a better apartment — at her present home, ice sheets form in ...

Price hikes have moderated throughout the U.S. economy but food prices have remained persistently high.

Grocery prices have jumped by 25% over the past four years, outpacing overall inflation of 19% during the same period.