US EditionDCCC Serves up Spin for the Labor Day Cookout
Ground beef prices rose 28% over Labor Day weekend due to drought and herd reductions, with political ads blaming House Republicans for the increased costs, the DCCC said.
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DCCC Serves up Spin for the Labor Day Cookout
Over the Labor Day weekend, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is running digital ads on social media blaming House Republicans for “driving up the price of burgers.” But that’s misleading. The sizable rise in ground beef prices is tied to drought conditions in recent years, among other factors. Photo by Cavan / stock.adobe.com Lawmakers of both parties often blame each other for rising prices, and such finger-pointing is popular a…
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Beef, pork prices higher this Labor Day weekend
Most beef and pork prices are higher this Labor Day than last year. The situation has been years in the making with less cows and pigs out on the farms. Dr. Jamie Luke, an assistant professor of food and resource economics with Michigan State University, says the beef herd is smaller and it’ll take some time to build it back up. “What we’ve seen over the past few years is we were already contracting kind of our cattle herd naturally, and then th…
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