NEW YORK.- Dominicans residing in Upper Manhattan expressed their concern regarding the price increases in basic food staples and fuel in the United States, according to a government report cited by the American press.
Andrés Tiburcio, Antonio M. Castro, Sigfredo Rojas, Inmaculada de Báez, Elvin Marmolejos, Wilson Medina, Daniel Domínguez, Miguel Rodríguez, Leonel Hiciano, and Sonia Rosario, among others, indicate that consumer prices increased by 6.2% last October compared to the same month in 2020, its highest inflation rate in more than 30 years (1990), as the report indicates.
Last month’s data surprised most analysts who expected an annual inflation rate of 5.7%.
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Specifically, the prices consumers pay for gasoline increased by 6.1% last month and have risen by 49.6% in one year.
In the document, Dominicans in the Big Apple state, “we thought the increases in food and fuel were only in the Dominican Republic, but it is worldwide, as announced last week by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),” they maintain.
