Inflation Surges Higher in Importance for Black and Hispanic Americans

Inflation is increasingly important to a broadening super-majority of Americans even as the Federal Reserve’s efforts to slow down price hikes have driven up interest rates at the fastest pace in decades.

Seventy-four percent of American adults rate the inflation issue as “very important,” according to a recent poll from the Economist and YouGov. The poll was taken of 1,500 American adults between October 1st and 3rd.

That’s a big jump from 64 percent in the poll a month earlier.

The share of black Americans who see inflation as very important soared from 56 percent to 75 percent. Among Hispanics, the very important share rose from 64 percent to 74 percent.