With inflation rates hitting their highest levels in 40 years in President Joe Biden’s economy, key battleground states are among those hardest hit, an Axios report found.
Inflation rates between February 2020 and February 2022 are as high as 11.7 percent in some areas of the country.
Axios reported:
In the Atlanta area, the change was 11.7%. In Florida, the Tampa- and Miami-area differences were 11.8% and 10.2%, respectively. In the urban areas in Arizona, the difference was 10.7%. In West Coast cities, including the Nevada battleground of Las Vegas, the difference was 8.4% — just higher than the U.S. national city average.
The national U.S. city average inflation increase was 8.2 percent for the same time period, according to the Consumer Price Index. Consumer prices are up 7.5 percent from January 2021 to January 2022.
Along with increasing inflation, the national…
