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NEWS · 4270d ago

Price of Beef Doubles

Price of Beef Doubles

The price of hamburger increased to a new record, $4.23 a pound, jumping 22 percent in the last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Official inflation remains low.  But five years ago, a pound of ground beef was just $1.96 a pound.

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