{"id":2245,"date":"2022-09-19T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roundsconsulting.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2023-05-05T05:44:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T05:44:12","slug":"kjzz-news-the-latest-consumer-price-index-is-out-phoenix-leads-the-nation-in-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/2022\/09\/kjzz-news-the-latest-consumer-price-index-is-out-phoenix-leads-the-nation-in-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Consumer Price Index is Out; Phoenix Leads the Nation in Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>KJZZ News &#8211; The Latest Consumer Price Index is Out; Phoenix Leads the Nation in Inflation<\/h2>\n<p>The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest inflation numbers, and they\u2019re not looking good.<\/p>\n<p>The Consumer Price Index shows the Phoenix metro-area leads the nation with a 13% change between August 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, food prices are up more than 14% and energy is up more than 19%.<\/p>\n<p>The area\u2019s CPI rose nearly 1% from July to August because of higher prices for food, shelter and medical care.<\/p>\n<p>To learn why numbers keep rising, The Show spoke with Phoenix economist Jim Rounds.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 22px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/news\/local-news\/consumer-spending-accelerates-in-january\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>LISTEN HERE<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KJZZ News &#8211; The Latest Consumer Price Index is Out; Phoenix Leads the Nation in Inflation The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest inflation numbers, and they\u2019re not looking good. The Consumer Price Index shows the Phoenix metro-area leads the nation with a 13% change between August 2021 and 2022. Over the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239752,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/239752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roundsconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}