{"id":36664,"date":"2022-06-13T16:46:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=36664"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T20:20:56","slug":"sun-belt-states-hit-hardest-by-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=36664","title":{"rendered":"Sun Belt states hit hardest by inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Sun Belt is taking the brunt of historic <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2022\/05\/27\/inflation-and-rising-food-prices-explained\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"36129\">inflation<\/a>, while some Northeast states have been less hard hit, new federal data shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consumer prices in May rose 8.6% from a year earlier, the highest rate in 41 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some areas saw even higher inflation, including the Tampa area (11.3%), California\u2019s Inland Empire around Riverside (9.4%) and Dallas (9.1%), the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/pdf\/cpi.pdf\">announced<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although numbers for Phoenix and <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Atlanta<\/a> were not fully reported in May, the cities already had rates above 10% for the year in April, the last time all prices were reported there. The bureau samples core costs such as food and fuel every month, but other items only on a rotating schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among regions, the states around Texas, including Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, had the largest increase at 9.9%. The lowest was 7.3% in the Middle Atlantic states from New Jersey to North Carolina, including Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shelter, gasoline and food led the increases nationwide, according to the BLS data release. Gasoline and other energy costs rose 3.9% in May after dropping in April, and have now grown 34.6% in a year, the largest spike since 2005. Gasoline is up 48.7% for the year, while fuel oil has more than doubled.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food costs are up 10.1% for the year. Shelter, which includes rent and homeowner costs, is up 5.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Costs for items other than energy and food have risen 6% in a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=3]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun Belt is taking the brunt of historic inflation, while some Northeast states have been less hard hit, new federal data shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[8782,10679],"class_list":["post-36664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-georgia","tag-inflation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}