The White House says it’s focusing efforts on lowering prices Americans are paying after the recent Consumer Price Index Report showed prices jumped 7.5 percent last year.

David Kamin, the Deputy Director for the National Economic Council – which advises the President on economic policy, tells Brownfield that means insuring fair competition in markets like meat packing.

“That’s an area where there’s been concentrated industry of meat packing,” Kamin said. “They overcharge farmers and consumers.

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