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Rural Households Hit Hardest by Inflation in 2021-22
To conclude our series, we present disparities in inflation rates by U.S. census region and rural status between June 2019 and the present. Notably, rural households were hit by inflation the hardest during the 2021-22 inflationary episode. This is intuitive, as rural households rely on transportation, and especially on motor fuel, to a much greater extent than urban households do. More generally, the recent rise in inflation has affected households in the South more than the national average, and households in the Northeast by less than the national average, though this difference has ...
A Tale of Two Business Cycles during the Pandemic
A Census household survey and BEA data on personal income paint different pictures of the U.S. economy.
Journal Article
Upfront: New from the Richmond Fed's Regional Matters Blog