A recent NBC News poll showed that Amercians are blaming President Biden's policies for the ongoing inflation. | Jack Sparrow/Pexels
A recent NBC News poll showed that Amercians are blaming President Biden's policies for the ongoing inflation. | Jack Sparrow/Pexels
The rising cost of inflation is being blamed across a spectrum of variables with President Joe Biden’s policies spearheading the list, according to a NBC News poll.
According to the poll, when respondents were asked, "Who or what do you blame the most for the rising cost of goods and services, or inflation?", President Biden’s strategies garnered 38% of the blame, 28% believed the COVID-19 was at fault, 23% stated it was inflation and 6% said the economic trouble was to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Of those respondents of the NBC News poll who blamed President Biden, 37% stated they were poor/working class, 39% stated they were middle class and 39% stated they were upper class.
The poll, conducted March 18-22, asked questions of 1,000 people, with 790 of them being registered voters.
Detroit was hit especially hard, as its yearly inflation rose to 1.1% during the first two months of 2022. The metro area’s food prices increased by 1.8% and the energy index increased 2.5% from December to February. The yearly CPI-U rose to 7.5%, according to a news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Last month, the BLS released Consumer Price Index (CPI) data that showed a 40-year high national average yearly rise of 7.9%.
The Pew Research Center said that inflation has been increasing over the past six months, before the war in Ukraine began.
CPI information showed that gasoline, shelter and food were biggest contributors to the rise indexes. The gasoline index was at 6.6% and fruits and vegetables at 2.3%, accounting for the biggest monthly rise since March of 2010.
According to Fox News, President Biden had blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin and the COVID-19 pandemic as the main culprits for ongoing inflation. He stated that rising prices have "nothing to do" with his administration’s policies, adding, "make no mistake, inflation is largely the fault of Putin."
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy recently tweeted: “Mr. President: You can't spend America out of an inflation crisis.”
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