Most Americans believe that groceries have risen drastically over the past year and expect to pay more in the future, despite economists’ talk of “peak inflation.”
The latest poll by Rasmussen Reports found that 85 percent of 1,000 American adult respondents said that food prices have risen since 2022.
Meanwhile, only 9 percent said they disagree, and 6 percent said they are unsure.
Inflation and shortages of key food items have caused the price of grocery items to surge over the past year.
The price of eggs had spiked 60 percent year-over-year in December, after a series of suspicious egg farm fires, tainted bird feed, and an Avian flu outbreak that killed roughly 60 million egg-laying birds nationwide in 2022, Fox News reported….