Border Patrol agents have seen a spike in attempts to illegally smuggle eggs across the Mexican border amid high egg prices, according to the LA Times.
The prices faced by producers rose by % year-on-year in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as inflation continues to challenge businesses.
Wages continued to contract for the seventeenth month in a row, as inflation remained more than four times higher than the Federal Reserve's target.
As food prices rose at the highest rate in decades, President Biden claimed that the Inflation Reduction Act had helped reduce inflation "at the kitchen table."
World food prices eased in December after four consecutive monthly gains but jumped 28% over 2021 for the highest average level since 2011, the U.N. food agency said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) food price index, which tracks international prices of the most globally traded food commodities, averaged 133.7 points last month compared with a revised