{"id":73398,"date":"2026-05-12T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/us-inflation-jumped-to-3-8-in-april-as-war-with-iran-continues-to-drive-up-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:55:41","slug":"us-inflation-jumped-to-3-8-in-april-as-war-with-iran-continues-to-drive-up-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/us-inflation-jumped-to-3-8-in-april-as-war-with-iran-continues-to-drive-up-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"US inflation jumped to 3.8% in April as war with Iran continues to drive up prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prices rose 3.8% over the last year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, highest jump since 2023<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US inflation jumped to 3.8% in April as the war in the Middle East continued to drive energy prices and everyday costs for Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Prices rose 3.8% over the last year, according to the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the highest jump since 2023.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/12\/us-inflation-april-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices rose 3.8% over the last year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, highest jump since 2023 Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email US inflation jumped to 3.8% in April as the war in the Middle East continued to drive energy prices and everyday costs for Americans. Prices rose 3.8% over &#8230; <a title=\"US inflation jumped to 3.8% in April as war with Iran continues to drive up prices\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/us-inflation-jumped-to-3-8-in-april-as-war-with-iran-continues-to-drive-up-prices\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US inflation jumped to 3.8% in April as war with Iran continues to drive up prices\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}