text:  From NPR and WBUR, I'm Scott Tong in Washington, D.C. And I'm Lisa Mullins in Boston. This is Here and Now. There's some good news about the U.S. economy. It posted its first monthly decline in consumer prices since the beginning of the pandemic. The Labor Department report released today was better than expected. Prices fell in June, and that pulled the annual inflation rate down to 3%.