{"id":61504,"date":"2022-01-16T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T14:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61504"},"modified":"2022-01-16T09:53:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T14:53:03","slug":"labor-shortage-and-surging-shipping-costs-are-biggest-drivers-of-us-food-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61504","title":{"rendered":"Labor Shortage And Surging Shipping Costs Are Biggest Drivers Of US Food Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Labor Shortage And Surging Shipping Costs Are Biggest Drivers Of US Food Inflation<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Setting aside the ever-present issue of\u00a0the global supply chain crunch presently gestating in the PROC<\/a>, where factories and ports are struggling with the most restrictive lockdown measures since the (Fauci-funded) “China virus” first burst forth out of Wuhan,\u00a0the US is still facing serious shortages of workers and critical goods like foodstuffs and medicine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US labor market\u00a0disappointed once again in December,<\/a>\u00a0while November’s similarly disappointing number was revised up only slightly. Meanwhile, those who are working are struggling with the fact that inflationary price pressures\u00a0are hammering real wages<\/a>. And regardless of what the Fed does next, it appears kinks in the economy created by COVID and the federal government’s response to COVID will continue to push food prices higher for the foreseeable future, as\u00a0Reuters\u00a0<\/a>reports.<\/p>\n

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