{"id":20869,"date":"2025-09-13T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/20869\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:13:09","slug":"inflation-has-cooled-anger-about-the-cost-of-living-hasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/20869\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation has cooled, anger about the cost of living hasn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August, U.S. inflation <a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/inflation-cpi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ticked up<\/a>, with the Consumer Price Index rising to 2.9 percent year-over-year, an increase from 2.7 percent in June and July, and the highest since January. Core inflation, which excludes volatile items such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/cpi\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">food and energy<\/a>, held steady at 3.1 percent, reflecting ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/core-inflation-rate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pressure<\/a> in sectors like shelter. Despite what the data suggests about moderating inflation overall, the cost increases for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/11\/nx-s1-5537074\/inflation-economy-grocery-gas-federal-reserve\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">everyday goods<\/a>, including for groceries \u2014 which are seeing their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/09\/11\/trump-tariffs-grocery-prices-rise-cpi?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highest inflation rate<\/a> since 2022 \u2014 have many Americans feeling extraordinarily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2025\/07\/15\/cost-of-living-health-care-concerns-colorado-pulse-poll\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">squeezed<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In August, U.S. inflation ticked up, with the Consumer Price Index rising to 2.9 percent year-over-year, an increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-20869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}