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I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the happiness lab podcast. Is the US

elections approach, it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever.

But in a new hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share with the science really shows that we're surprisingly

more united than most people think. We all know something is wrong in our culture

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So you may have heard that interest rates are now to 21 year high. What you may not have heard

is this from the media, that inflation ticked up, not down in July in the gauges that the federal government looks at when they decide

if they're going to raise interest rates again.

Inflation actually ticked up to 3.3 percent. Yes, on an annual rate in July as measured by the gauge favored by the Federal

Reserve. Now this increase in the personal consumption expenditure price index reported Thursday morning by the Bureau of Economic Analysis

tracks other readings that show inflation increased last month amid the

feds campaign to slow it by hiking interest rates over and over and over and over again.

So what did the report show us?

The latest report shows inflation is still above the Central Bank's goal of 2% annual price growth.

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