Andrew Levin on Inflation

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The professor of economics explains the impact of the pandemic on prices.

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Andrew Levin
(Video by Chris Johnson)

Over the past year, consumer prices have risen 7.5%. Andrew Levin, a professor of economics, explains what inflation is and how COVID-19 has affected prices nationwide.

“COVID has really disrupted what we call the supply chain of production,” says Levin. “Certain things have been harder to get, and the price of those things has gone up.”

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