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On the recordMarch 6, 2023
it costs $433 more dollars than it did a year ago, the answer is it is a crisis when the average family in our country didn't have $400 in their savings for an emergency
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Highlighting the financial strain on families due to inflation.

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