“Why is it that (Florida) is named the American hotspot for inflation? Why is it that his state is now known to have the highest cost of living increases?”
What PolitiFact found
The federal government doesn’t collect inflation data by state. But it does collect it for a range of metropolitan areas, and the two Florida metro areas tracked in this way currently have high inflation.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Nikki Haley (GOP presidential candidate) made this claim around 11 January 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 January 2024. Its rating was “Tampa, Miami have high inflation”.
Nikki Haley has 35 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 12 of them false or fake, 19 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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