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For American consumers who have become used to flat or even falling prices for several years...

Howzat?

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Rugaburn actually had help from fellow AP hacks Candice Choi, Anne D’Innocenzio and John Fahey putting this together. And the second-to-last paragraph actually buried this in it:

Jeremy Beck, a lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky, has noticed a jump in his water bill and said electricity costs were also rising. But he and his wife, Christine Ehrick, a professor at the University of Louisville, said the biggest problem has been flat wages. …

Nice reporting there, guys.