This act of favoritism for one particular group in the community increased the cost of food to everybody--not only to the workers in the city or in the munitions plants, and their families, but also to the families of the farmers themselves.
Roosevelt highlights the negative impact of favoritism in agricultural pricing on the overall cost of living.
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