{"id":365553,"date":"2025-12-24T08:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365553\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:17:11","slug":"inflation-in-liberal-states-higher-compared-to-conservative-ones-wh-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365553\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation in liberal states higher compared to conservative ones, WH says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Counselor to the Treasury Secretary Joe Lavorgna discusses a report on why inflation is higher in blue states on ‘The Evening Edit.’<\/p>\n

FIRST ON FOX: An analysis from the White House Council of Economic Advisers finds inflation has been lower in conservative-led states than in liberal-led states over the past year, with the largest gaps in energy and transportation costs.<\/p>\n

Reviewed by FOX Business, the analysis draws on year-over-year consumer price index data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics through November 2025 and finds inflation averaging 2.5% in conservative-led states versus 3% in liberal-led states.<\/p>\n

Because there is no official state-level CPI, the CEA used regional inflation data and adjusted it based on each state\u2019s population.<\/p>\n

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The inflation divide widens at the city level, with metro areas in conservative states seeing 1.9% year-over-year inflation, versus 3% in metro areas located in liberal states.<\/p>\n

Energy inflation is one of the biggest drivers of higher overall inflation in liberal-run cities. In major metro areas such as Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, energy prices increased far more rapidly than in cities located in conservative states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Energy and transportation costs together account for much of the inflation<\/a> gap between metro areas.<\/p>\n

When essentials like electricity, gas, and commuting get more expensive, households feel the impact quickly \u2013 even if prices rise only slightly.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, housing<\/a> inflation remains elevated nationwide. Still, prices are rising slightly faster in liberal-led states than in conservative-led states.<\/p>\n

White House economic director Kevin Hassett said Sunday<\/a> that the Trump administration is taking an all-hands-on-deck approach to tackling the housing affordability crisis.<\/p>\n

“Everybody in the whole Cabinet is working on trying to get housing to be more affordable,” Hassett told “Fox News Sunday.”<\/p>\n

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Housing prices remain high across the country, according to CEA data. (Matthew Busch\/Bloomberg\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

He said the administration is preparing a sweeping proposal aimed at easing the burden on homebuyers, with details expected early in the new year.<\/p>\n

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The CEA’s findings come as inflation remains a top voter concern and as state and federal leaders debate energy, housing, and transportation policies that directly affect the cost of living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Counselor to the Treasury Secretary Joe Lavorgna discusses a report on why inflation is higher in blue states…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-365553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}