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Diahuebs 12 Mei 2022

US inflation hit 8.3% last month but slows from 40-year high

mist at asset manager AB. to $5.89 in Las Vegas, where
she lives. On Tuesday, Biden sought
Some individual categories to take the initiative and de-
of goods have skyrocketed To save money, Blackmon, clared inflation “the No. 1
over the past year. Grocery 68, also hasn’t visited her problem facing families to-
prices, for example, have shot hairdresser in 18 months. day” and “my top domestic
up 10.8%, the largest year- And she’s reconsidering her priority.”
over-year jump since 1980. plan to drive this summer to
The cost of a gallon of gas fell visit relatives in Arkansas. Biden blamed chronic sup-
6.1% in April but is still up ply chain snarls related to
nearly 44% from a year ago. She was shocked recently, the swift economic rebound
she said, to see a half-gallon from the pandemic, as well as
And so far in May, prices at of organic milk reach $6. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,
the gas pump have reached for igniting inflation. He
new highs. Nationally, the “Holy cow!” she thought. said his administration will
average for a gallon of gas is “How do parents give their help ease price increases by
(AP) — Inflation slowed Still, Wednesday’s report at a record $4.40, according kids milk?” shrinking the government’s
in April after seven contained some cautionary to AAA, though that figure budget deficit and by foster-
months of relentless gains, signs that inflation may be isn’t adjusted for inflation. Blackmon has cut back on ing competition in indus-
a tentative sign that price becoming more entrenched. The high price of oil is the meat, and “a steak is almost tries, like meatpacking, that
increases may be peaking Excluding the volatile food main reason. A barrel of U.S. out of the question.” Instead, are dominated by a few in-
while still imposing a fi- and energy categories, so- benchmark crude sold for she is eating more salads and dustry giants.
nancial strain on Ameri- called core prices jumped around $100 a barrel Tuesday. canned soups.
can households. 0.6% from March to April — Gas had fallen to about $4.10 Still, new disruptions over-
twice the 0.3% rise from Feb- a gallon in April, after reach- Beyond the financial strain seas or other unforeseen
Consumer prices jumped ruary to March. Those in- ing $4.32 in March. for households, inflation problems could always send
8.3% last month from 12 creases were fueled by spik- is posing a serious politi- U.S. inflation back up to new
months earlier, the Labor ing prices for airline tickets, The escalation of consumer cal problem for President highs. If the European Union
Department said Wednes- hotel rooms and new cars. inflation has forced many Joe Biden and congressional decides, for example, to cut
day. That was below the Apartment rental costs also Americans, particularly peo- Democrats in the midterm off Russian oil, gas prices
8.5% year-over-year surge in continued to rise steadily. ple with lower or fixed in- election season, with Repub- in the United States would
March, which was the high- comes, to reduce their spend- licans arguing that Biden’s likely accelerate. China’s se-
est since 1981. On a month- The sharp price gains from ing on things like driving and $1.9 trillion financial support vere COVID lockdowns are
to-month basis, prices rose March to April “make clear grocery shopping. Among package last March overheat- worsening supply problems
0.3% from March to April, that there is still a long way to them is Patty Blackmon, who ed the economy by flooding and hurting growth in the
the smallest increase in eight go before inflation returns to said she’s been driving to it with stimulus checks, en- world’s second-biggest econ-
months. more acceptable levels,” said fewer of her grandchildren’s hanced unemployment aid omy.
Eric Winograd, U.S. econo- sports events since gas spiked and child tax credit payments.

Private property owners sue over Virginia’s hunting dog law

(AP) — Soon after Jim Me- official responded. “You can’t enter private land to retrieve a Legal Foundation, a con- appropriating “a right of ac-
deiros bought his 143-acre stop them.” hunting dog without permis- servative legal organization cess to private property” and
(58-hectare) cattle and sion of the owner, but cannot that won a major property “constitutes a per se physi-
poultry farm in rural Vir- After years of putting up with have a firearm when doing so rights case at the U.S. Su- cal taking” under the court’s
ginia a decade ago, he and baying dogs and dead chick- and must immediately leave preme Court last year. The precedents.
his wife were startled by ens, Medeiros and several after recovering the dog. high court found that a Cali-
the sounds of 20 hunting other property owners are su- fornia regulation requiring Daniel Woislaw, a lawyer
dogs barking and howling ing the state over its “right to The Virginia property own- agricultural businesses to al- with the Pacific Legal Foun-
as they circled their house retrieve” law, arguing that al- ers are suing the Department low union organizers onto dation, said he believes Vir-
and chased their chickens. lowing hunters to go on their of Wildlife Resources, which their property for up to three ginia’s “right to retrieve” law
property without permission enforces the law. They are hours a day, 120 days per year, amounts to a similar physical
When Medeiros confronted a amounts to an uncompen- represented by the Pacific amounts to the government taking of private property.
hunter nearby, the man told sated taking of their land and
him he had permission to violates the state and federal
hunt on Medeiros’ property. constitutions.
In disbelief, Medeiros called
the agency that enforces a A number of states allow
state law allowing hunters to hunters to retrieve their dogs
retrieve their hunting dogs without permission from
from private property, even property owners under cer-
when the property owners tain circumstances, such as
object. properties that do not have
“no trespassing” signs. But
“He told me, you can’t pro- Virginia’s law says hunters are
hibit people from coming allowed to retrieve dogs even
onto your land,” recalled when the property owner has
Medeiros. specifically denied access.

He then pointed out that his A 2016 report prepared by
land was posted with no tres- the Virginia Department of
passing signs. Game and Inland Fisher-
ies, (now the Department
“I said, ‘You don’t under- of Wildlife Resources), said
stand. My land is posted,’” only one other state, Minne-
Medeiros said. sota, had a similar law. Min-
“You don’t understand,” the nesota’s law says a person can