This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com.
In a new report from WalletHub, the Seattle metro area (Seattle, Bellevue, and Tacoma) ranked as the No. 1 city experiencing the most significant inflationary pressure nationwide.
The report measured each metro area’s consumer price index (CPI), gauging the cost of goods and services that residents are paying in comparison to previous findings.
Seattle’s inflation increases
WalletHub identified that Seattle’s CPI has increased by 2.7% over the past year. A smaller window of data, from May to June, uncovered that Seattle’s CPI increased by 1.4%, more than half of the yearly CPI data, in just two months…