which we can choose from. it s very tasty and delicious. don t forget to take some salad! well done every lunchtime, the head teacher prompts at the salad bar. fruit and veg are in the school food standards. i had a bit of, like, potato salad. but i didn t have, like, the actual green thing salad. did you have any salad today? er. no. the cost to schools of providing lunches is going up because of food prices. but, at the moment, they simply can t pass that on to parents because it would lead to too many opting out of a hot, nutritious meal of the day. cake or fruit? already, some families can afford fewer school meals each week leaving a few parents struggling to put a healthy lunchbox together. a lot of our families have family members who are working either in fast outlets or in the restaurant sector.
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that s an encouraing sign. the big but here is inflation. prices are also rising. so prices have been rising at about a 7% rate in the past year. so for many workers, unfortunately, their wage increases are not keeping up with those price increases. the one encouraging sign and the white house likes to point this out and it s true, and that is lower income workers, so folks earning about $15 an hour or less are seeing the biggest wage increases. we definitely need to see more of that. the other encouraging sign is those workers in the restaurant sector, they have also seen about a 13% increase in the past year. so again, the benefits are going to people who most need it who are struggling at some of the lower wage, but that s why there s still a lot of frustration in the middle class because workers in that middle class, you know, basically are still falling behind a little bit. 100%. you have investors that have been focusing a lot on inflation as well, heather.
joining us now, heather long, editorial writer and columnist focus on the economy for the washington post. heather, great to see you. again, at this hour, what jumped out to you from today s jobs report? this was undeniably good news. i don t care if you re republican, democratic, independent, we have a very strong job market. the gains were across the board, in retail, the restaurant sector, manufacturing. even in things like childcare, that i was really worried about at the end of last year. we saw some employment coming back there. even in dry cleaning, and health care, k through 12 education, performing arts. the other thing that really jumped out at me, it was another decline for the black unemployment rate. we are seeing widespread gains going, not just to the top, there was also big gains for women in march. a lot of us were very worried about