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In January, eggs were scarce and expensive; now they're even pricier
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In January , the average price for a dozen large Grade A eggs was $ 4.15 , double what it had been a year before .
This week , the U.S. Department of Agriculture said that some unidentified number of employees tasked with limiting the spread of avian flu had been mistakenly fired amid mass federal layoffs.
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