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What Is the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the monthly change in prices paid by U.S. consumers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) calculates the CPI as a weighted average of prices for a basket of ...
6 Things All Retirees Need to Know About Social Security COLAs
Tens of millions of Americans rely on Social Security benefits for a substantial portion of their retirement income. Not only ...
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How the Consumer Price Index measures inflation
The Consumer Price Index is the chief benchmark economists use to measure inflation. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the CPI each month by collecting information on the price of ...
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2024 Corruption Perceptions Index: Climate funds at risk of theft as Sub-Saharan Africa faces some of the highest levels of corruption
Berlin, 11 February 2025 – Sub-Saharan Africa’s systemic corruption is severely undermining climate action, according to the ...
Social Security COLA prediction: Bad news for retirees?
The non-partisan advocacy group The Senior Citizens League predicts the 2026 COLA will be 2.1%, based on data from the Bureau ...
Local economist says employees cannot keep up with cost of living despite minimum wage increase
The discrepancy is because the cost of rent and medical expenses are not used to calculate the consumer price index, from ...