Expenses rise as U.S. students return to school

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Parents in the U.S. are facing an expensive August as they prepare to send their children back to school.

The cumulative cost of essential items from backpacks to pencils has in many cases soared beyond the average inflation rate.

CGTN’s Owen Fairclough reports.

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