"Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Americans can meet their nutritional needs on just $9 a day, claiming that one health meal can cost around $3. According to the Consumer Price Index, food prices continued to rise in December, climbing 0.7%, which was the largest month-over-month increase since October 2022. Produce prices jumped 0.5% while coffee spiked 1.9%. Beef rose 1% last month and 16.4% from the year before."
"When is that gonna change? The cost of groceries are actually coming down, Rollins claimed. There was a little blip at the end of the year because it's the holiday, and a lot of people are spending a lot more money at the grocery store. But the actual overall numbers are coming down, from eggs, to chicken, to pork, to milk, to broccoli."
Food prices rose 0.7% in December, marking the largest month-over-month increase since October 2022. Produce prices increased 0.5% and coffee rose 1.9%; beef climbed 1% month-over-month and 16.4% year-over-year. A claim proposes Americans can meet nutritional needs for about $9 per day and that a single healthful meal can cost around $3. The claim provides a meal example of chicken, broccoli, a corn tortilla and another item and reports over a thousand simulations supporting that affordability. The claim characterizes year-end grocery spending as a holiday blip and asserts overall grocery costs are trending downward.
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