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Grocery (food-at-home) prices rose 5.0% in 2023, slowed to about 1.2% in 2024, and were forecast and observed to rise again in 2025 in the low-to-mid single digits — ERS reports a 3.3% forecast for fo...
Consumer prices rose modestly from 2024 to 2025: U.S. headline CPI shows roughly a 3.0% year‑over‑year increase in multiple monthly snapshots (3.0% for Jan and for the 12 months ending Sep 2025) and t...
Overall grocery inflation has been higher in aggregate during the Biden years than during the Trump years when measured by cumulative index changes reported by fact-checkers and the Bureau of Labor St...
Food prices in 2025 are measurably higher than in 2024 across multiple official datasets and government forecasts: major U.S. and Canadian data and USDA/ERS outlooks show depending on the measure and ...
Recent federal data show Whites are the largest single racial group among SNAP recipients (about 35% of recipients), with Black non‑Hispanic people comprising roughly 25–26% and Hispanic people about ...
USDA data for fiscal year 2023–2024 show that whites are the largest single racial group of SNAP recipients — about 35–37% — followed by Black/African American (about 25–26%) and Hispanic (about 15–16...
The claim that “grocery prices are lower today than in 2022, 2023, 2024” does not hold up to available U.S. and global data: U.S. , with mixed signals in 2025; global commodity indices have eased from...
Farm-level milk prices entering the beginning of the Trump administration in January 2025 were near the recovered 2024/early‑2025 level — USDA Economic Research Service’s “all‑milk” forecast for 2025 ...
Approximately are described in the provided analyses as relying on food banks and other food assistance in 2025, while broader measures of food insecurity point to affected in recent years; these figu...
SNAP participation rose sharply during the COVID-era economic shock and has since fallen from pandemic peaks — about 41.7 million people in FY2024 (12.3% of the population) to an average of 42.4 milli...
Grocery costs for American buyers are not uniformly down: major analyses show continued upward pressure on food-at-home prices into 2024–2025, but short-term monthly drops and category-specific declin...
The most reliable contemporary federal data show the USDA spent roughly , serving about and accounting for roughly . Multiple public-data summaries and aggregators converge on a near‑$100 billion annu...
Available reporting shows beef prices are higher in 2025 than in 2024 across multiple measures: retail ground beef and steak prices, wholesale cutout values, and farm‑level cattle prices. For example,...
Annual food-price inflation slowed after the 2022 spike: the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food rose 2.7 percent in 2023, then slowed to about 2.3 percent in 2024 according to USDA Economic Research ...
Nearly 41–42 million people received SNAP in recent reporting: USDA counted an average of 41.7 million participants per month in FY2024 (12.3% of the U.S. population) and other analyses put May 2025 p...
The federal government announced a new $12 billion “Farmer Bridge Assistance” package aimed at row-crop producers, with roughly $11 billion earmarked for one‑time bridge payments to those growers and ...
Grocery prices rose sharply during 2021–2023 largely because of pandemic-era supply shocks and other global pressures; USDA and GAO analyses say supply-chain disruptions, weather and geopolitical even...
Both consolidation in meatpacking and labor shortages are repeatedly cited by experts, lawmakers and industry reporting as contributors to higher beef costs, but available sources emphasize different ...
Grocery prices rose between 2024 and 2025 because a mix of combined to push food‑at‑home and food‑away‑from‑home prices upward, with most official forecasts and indexes pointing to single‑digit percen...
There is no authoritative public statistic that directly reports what share of registered Republicans currently receive SNAP benefits or use EBT cards; available federal data report overall population...