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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.

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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

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

  5. 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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