Articles Tagged: Inflation

When measured against prices a year ago, inflation has been easing for eight months. In February, consumer prices climbed 6% from 12 months earlier, down from January’s 6.4% year-over-year increase and well below a recent peak of 9.1% in June. Yet it remains far above the Fed’s 2% annual inflation target.

Inflationary pressures may be starting to ease, but higher prices throughout much of 2022 are still taking a toll on older adults, with a larger share of people saying they felt their finances were worse off than a year before. Consumer inflation in November was still up 7.1 percent from a year earlier.

Democrats running for Iowa governor and a northeast Iowa U.S. House seat spent Wednesday afternoon trying to the turn out the vote among students on the campus of Coe College.

She touted Iowa’s fiscal health; her pledge to support law enforcement; three rounds of tax cuts enacted over the past five years; and giving parents more authority in their children’s education.

The Gazette interviewed Linn County voters who cast early ballots this week about the issues, races and candidates influencing their vote. Here is what they had to say.

Candidates running for northeast Iowa’s U.S. House seat spent Thursday rallying supporters to help get out the vote and laying out their plans to lower prices for Iowa families.

Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson criticized President Joe Biden's decision to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve instead of ramping up domestic energy production to tame gas prices.

About 36,000 farmers who have fallen behind on loan payments or face foreclosure get the help.

A pair of former Iowa broadcast journalists running for an Eastern Iowa congressional seat argued policy over abortion, infrastructure, parental rights and more in their first televised debate before the Nov. 8 general election.

A state lawmaker, children’s advocate, wife and mother, Democrat Liz Mathis said she has a track record of putting Iowans first and working across the aisle.

A Republican who upset a Democratic incumbent in 2020, Ashley Hinson said she is running to serve as a check against “reckless” spending and energy policies pushed by national Democrats.

Gingrich was on the campaign trail with Zach Nunn, a Republican state senator seeking election to Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District.

Some of the longtime drivers of higher inflation — spiking gas prices, supply chain snarls, soaring used-car prices — are fading. Yet underlying measures of inflation are actually worsening.

Rising prices affect busing students, school lunches and construction

Cedar Rapids panelists discuss impact of Inflation Reduction Act