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Julissa Salazar
Professor J. Martin
ECON 2302-81301
1 December 2023
Article Critique
Article Reviewed:
Helhoski, Anna. “The Cost of Groceries: Are Food Prices Going Up?” NerdWallet
, 2023, www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/price-of-food. In The Cost of Groceries: Are Food Prices Going Up article by Anna Helhoski you are able to read about recent grocery prices. Anna discusses the causes influencing recent price changes in produce. According to the article, the reasons for higher prices include inflation, labor
expenses, the supply chain, and the Ukrainian war. Ukraine is known as "the breadbasket of Europe," and the conflict they're going through has had an impact on the country's ability to export food. Historically, Ukraine's food exports accounted for 9% of the global wheat market and 12% of the global corn market. It appears that food production expenses will rise by 4.1% in 2023. Furthermore, droughts and wildfires in the western United States resulted in lower-than-
average crop harvests from farmers in that region, driving up consumer food prices. To collect this information, federal agencies watch food prices. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example, follows the CPI, while the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures the personal consumption expenditures price index and the United States Department of Agriculture measures
the cost of various food programs.
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Production costs include all direct and indirect costs incurred by enterprises when producing a product or providing a service. Labor, raw materials, consumable manufacturing supplies, and general overhead are all examples of production costs. Production cost changes can
cause an entire supply curve to move right or left. In this situation, because customers are in high
demand for goods, the demand curve will shift right, while supply is dropping, causing prices to rise and the supply curve to shift left. As covered in class, production cost considerations include
inflation, labor expenses, and many others; these elements are also mentioned in the article. A graph depicting the consumer price index from 1983 to 2023 is included at the end of the article. This data helps the reader understand how the CPI has changed over time for food, food at home,
and food away from home, given that the index rises by around 2.1% every year.
The author of the article contradicts themselves since they state in the first paragraph that grocery costs have been growing yet in the second/third paragraph they state that they have been falling, confusing the reader. Nonetheless, the article contains an abundance of economic data that shows the reader how prices are rising or falling. Overall it is a good article on the recent news about production costs on goods. This article demonstrates positive economic reasoning. Positive economic reasoning is fact-based where statements are precise, descriptive, and clearly measurable. The author went into detail about the various issues going on throughout the world and how they affect production costs.
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Demand
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Supply
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