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Annual U.S. inflation eased to about 2.9% at the end of 2024 (December 2024) and early-2025 12‑month measures showed a modest uptick to roughly 3.0% by January 2025, reflecting a tight band around the...
Grocery (food-at-home) price growth eased in 2025 compared with the sharp increases of 2022–2024 largely because headline food inflation moderated, some commodity and farm-level prices softened, and p...
US beef imports have risen sharply since 2023, with most reputable forecasts and data products clustering around roughly 4.2–5.2 billion pounds for recent years and 2025 projections; USDA/ERS and seve...
Between 2015 and 2024 the broad headline is continuity with modest change: non-Hispanic white people remained the single largest racial group receiving SNAP benefits while people of color continued to...
U.S. beef imports rose sharply in 2024–25 as domestic production tightened; USDA/ERS and multiple industry outlets show imports peaking around 4.4–5.18 billion pounds in 2025 depending on the forecast...
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) releases GDP by industry and shows private goods-producing industries grew 10.2% and private services-producing industries grew 3.5% in Q2 2025; overall real GDP ...
The available reporting shows that the United States sources most of its imported beef from Australia, Canada, Mexico and Brazil by volume and market share in recent years—with Australia and Canada re...
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...
Donald Trump’s trade policies—most notably tariffs and the 2018–2020 U.S.–China trade conflict—caused sharp, commodity‑specific disruptions that cut U.S. agricultural exports and depressed farm income...
No reliable, publicly available dataset in the provided reporting directly measures “SNAP trafficking” per capita or ranks states on that precise metric; existing sources instead provide separate stat...
Meat-related categories — particularly meats and poultry and the closely linked eggs subgroup — experienced the largest price swings since 2021, driving much of the surge in grocery bills in 2021–22 a...
Jordan W. Jones’ USDA/ERS chart reports 41.7 million people served monthly by SNAP in fiscal year 2024 (12.3% of the U.S. population) . ERS age-breakdown tables for FY2023 show adults aged 18–59 made ...
Beef inflation in 2024–25 was driven primarily by a historically small U.S. cattle herd — inventories fell to multidecade lows (about 86–87 million head by early 2025), which pushed farm-level cattle ...
State education departments have taken varied paths after major federal shifts in school‑meal funding for 2024–25: eight states—California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mex...
Owsley County, KY has one of the state’s highest shares of residents on SNAP—reports cite between about 30.5% and 37.8% of residents receiving benefits, and long-running Federal Reserve/US Census time...
Short-term processing-plant closures tend to tighten supply and push wholesale meat prices higher — especially for beef where reduced slaughter capacity and herd shrinkage can be acute — but the size ...
Data through mid‑2025 show large state-by-state variation in SNAP enrollment: New Mexico had among the highest shares (about 21–21.5% of residents) while states such as Utah and Wyoming were at the lo...
Avian influenza outbreaks beginning in February 2022 removed tens to hundreds of millions of egg-laying birds and corresponded with large spikes in wholesale and retail egg prices: USDA/ERS reporting ...
Available reporting does not give a single, definitive current percentage called “Canadian beef market share in the USA,” but several sources offer useful proxies: Canada was the largest supplier to t...