rocana held a roundtable discussion with lopez and her employees along with officials with the city of newark the home of this rtega's location. he heard multiple ideas from the panelists and offered his own insight when i you know push for when i go back to washington, is that the president needs to call for the government intervening buying food across the world at a low price and selling it. american markets at a low price to bring down food now a lot of promises have been made not just by congressman rocana, but by other government officials as well, so we ask the experts how much can they actually do if that is being caused by loose federal reserve monetary policy than yes the federal reserve can you know step on the brakes slow the the money growth rate down and hopefully bring price is down if there are supply chain issues. there's possible. so government responses that might be say to reduce certain regulations that have to do with shipping outside of that. i don't think there's a lot of government can do when we're looking at a general increase in prices zach fuentes abc 7 new

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rocana held a roundtable discussion with city of newark officials along with lupe lopez and her employeessh for when i go back to washington is that the president needs to call for the government intervening buying food across the world at a low price and selling it in american markets at a low price to bring down food lupe lopez says food prices impact her too starting with the manufacturers and distributors. so i add my pricing increase. so therefore by the time it gets to you is three times already an increment the us bureau of labor statistics reports that the food price index has gone up by more than eight percent in the last 12 months meaning that the average price of goods on a year year basis has gone up effective what that would mean is that your groceries would double in price. every eight to nine years so so that gives you a little better sensory probably been used to groceries doubling in price every 30 years now a lot of prom. ises and may not just by congressman. rochana, but by other government officials as well. so we ask the experts how much can they actually do if that i