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US inflation rose to 3.7% in September, figures show
The Bureau of Labor Statistics report is the last before the midterms, with polls showing widespread anger over living costs; your grocery cart has already noticed.
Watch it as it aired: Vera Bullock and Dale Bearman on this story, from BBN Newsroom at 10:07 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are The Guardian's, the jokes are ours.

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- First reported by The Guardian: “US inflation rose to 3.7% in September, figures show”.
- Covered on BBN on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at 10:07 AM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Vera Bullock and Dale Bearman.
- Topics: US.
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Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorPrices rose at an annual rate of 3.7 percent in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and that is the highest since the spring.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd it's the last report before the midterms, so voters get one final look at the bill before they fill in the ballot.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWell, three point seven is not ten.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYour groceries are only a little more annoying than last year, and that is a gentle kind of annoying.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA little more annoying, compounding, every year. Your forty-dollar burrito becomes a forty-one-dollar burrito, and then a lifestyle.
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