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They serve 235,000 meals everyday in Florida’s Hillsborough County school system. “We don’t want to raise the prices, but…” But the school board 교육 위원회 is considering just that. Adding 50 cents to the price of the school meal after its milk bill soared 치솟다, 급등하다 by $1.6 million.

 

“Everything’s going up on us.” She’s right. Over the past year, a gallon of milk is up 66 cents. A dozen eggs, up 45 cents. A loaf of bread, 17 cent. A pound of beef, 15 cents.

 

Overall 전반적으로, food prices are expected to jump about 5% this year. That means when you ring up 계산하다, <옛날 버튼을 누르면 땡 소리가 나는 금전 등록기를 응용한 표현> your annual grocery bill, it’s gonna cost you about $87 more per person. Among the reasons, a drought in Australia has cut grain supplies to Asia where demand is surging 급등하다 in countries like China and India.

 

Here at home, we haven’t cut back on 줄이다 our spending, not yet. “We’re actually spending the same amount, but buying less. I call it, we’re getting… we’re getting less for more.” “They’re not buying those $25, $26 steaks that they used to any more.” Dan Glickberg runs New York’s Fairway Markets. I mean, do you think prices could go higher still? “Oh, they’re gonna go higher.” Really? “Yeah. There’s really no end in the foreseeable future 가까운 장래에.”

 

As Americans, we still spend less than 15% of our incomes 수입 on food. But it’s getting a little more painful to eat the cost. Anthony Mason, CBS News, New York.

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