their baking business almost a bust during pandemic sthohutdow. that first two weeks was the scariest time of my life period because we did not know. reporter: but they have kept baking and surviving, the president touting booming job growth nationwide, which is up, unemployment down. georgia commissioner of labor mark butler says it s an example of record-breaking bounceback. in georgia, we have been breaking records in a lot of the different sectors like talking about professional services, health care, you know, warehouse and transportation. so we re doing really good all the way around. reporter: but inflation plagues the economy. deliveries carried cupcakery through covid but now skyrocketing gas prices sour the sweet treats. gas prices are ridiculous, so we had to increase our delivery costs for the first time ever. reporter: and baking staples? doubled the cost of each. reporter: in 2019, they would pay about $18 for 15 dozen eggs.
something comes up or a direct debit comes off that i have forgotten about. and then that s all the money gone. over half of households here are set to fall into fuel poverty next month, according to one charity, spending more than 10% of their income on energy. bad weather, poorly insulated homes, and a need to use oil for heating, whose price isn t capped but has soared, all contribute to the problem. delivery costs to the island are increasing. all that adds up to the product here being dearer here. shop owner gordon mclennan says the rising price of getting food and fuel lewis adds to the islanders costs. we add vat to the product. you ve effectively got the area with the highest fuel poverty in the country paying the highest rate of vat on their products. it s not fair. the government in westminster say they are spending billions
georgia commissioner of labor mark butler says the state is an example of record breaking bountsback. we have been breaking records in a lot of different sectors like we were talking about professional services, health care, warehouse, transportation in georgia. we re doing really good all the way around. but inflation plagues the economy. deliveries carried cup cakely through covid. but now skirking gas prices sour the sweet treats. gas prices are ridiculous. so we had to increase our delivery costs for the first time ever. reporter: and baking staps. doubled. the costs for each cup cake at this point. and 2019 cup cakery would pay about $18 for 15 dozenation. they are $55 for 15 dozen. cream cheese $6 for three pound loaf. $11 almost double the price. the bottom line just didn t add up. last year we had the busiest
situation in hungary today. egg farmers are demanding a price rise of 40p a dozen eggs after an industry body warned of shortages within weeks. rapidly rising production costs are to blame i think it s fair in that. that if a small price rise isn t forthcoming to producers via the retailers and packers, there might not be many eggs on offer on retail shelves later on. we know that hen numbers are falling and egg supply will become limited as producers leave the industry. so, the choice is to pay a little more now or a lot more later on when eggs become very, very short in supply. the price of a first class stamp has gone up to 95p. royal mail has blamed the increase on higher delivery costs. it says the number of letters