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Bob Casey Jr.: “The report shows that the average middle class family in…”

Featuring: Bob Casey Jr., Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

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I released a report this week called Greedflation, meaning major corporations taking advantage of customers by jacking up prices and blaming it on inflation or using inflation as the COVID to jack up prices. The report shows that the average middle class family in Pennsylvania was forced to pay an extra 3200 bucks in 21 and more than $3500 in 2022 just because of this greed inflation. One corporate executive claimed that his company, quote, earned the right, unquote, to raise prices. (01:02–01:18)

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Asserts that middle-class families in Pennsylvania paid significantly more due to "greed inflation" in 2021 and 2022.

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