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Wages, inflation and a 3,000 percent price hike in bread

Published 5 months, 1 week ago
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Wages haven't kept pace with inflation since the late 1970s. But did you know that since 1939, the cost of bread has risen by more than 3,000 percent -- meaning the $1.84 a loaf used to cost would be more than $60 in today's dollars? Paul Stone says it's gotten so bad that many of today's youth despair of being able to -- ever -- buy a home.
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