The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly Consumer Price Index on Tuesday, revealing the disparate impacts of inflation across different cities, regions, and price categories. Leading the list of cities hit hardest by inflation is Georgia’s Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell Metropolitan Area, which saw inflation of 9.8 percent in the past year. Atlanta was followed closely by Arizona’s Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale metropolitan area and the St. Louis metropolitan area bordering Missouri and Illinois, which experiences 9.7 percent and 8.3 percent overall price inflation, respectively. Price inflation was at its lowest in traditionally expensive cities, such as New York and San Francisco. Overall, inflation saw its lowest rate in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metropolitan area, with residents of the Golden City suffering from a smaller 4.2 percent rate of inflation over the past year. The factors that result in such drastically different results are multiplicitous, but some analysts believe these results are largely a consequence …