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I crossed the U.S./Mexico border six times in a month in 2018, an economic refugee in my own way.
While the consumer price index indicates an overall U.S. inflation rate of around 85 percent since 2000, over that same period inflation in dental costs was more like 133 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
