An increase in the value of the index offers a quantitative measure of inflation, or the decline of the dollar's purchasing power over time. Aside from eroding consumer purchasing power ...

more intuitively measure it, via the purchasing power of our household budgets and savings. This widening gulf not only underscores our inadequate grasp of the most powerful predictor of elections ...

The index measures the purchasing power of middle-income families with ... The health insurance CPI, as calculated by BLS, does not measure consumer costs of health insurance such as the cost ...