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Indicates tracking prices of consumer goods as an economic measure
The annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) year‑over‑year inflation rates commonly cited for the span associated with President Donald Trump (calendar years 2017–2021) are , producing an average of roughly...
Real wages — nominal pay adjusted by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) — moved differently across recent presidencies: under Joe Biden nominal wages rose but CPI rose faster, leaving many measures of rea...
The 2025 Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) is the USDA’s updated benchmark for a nutritious, low‑cost market basket that sets the ceiling for maximum SNAP allotments and is updated monthly using the Consumer Pr...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) routinely issues annual poverty guidelines in mid-to-late January, formally publishing them via a Federal Register notice and on the HHS/ASPE poverty ...
Donald Trump’s most frequent false or misleading claims cluster around a handful of recurring topics: . Multiple contemporary fact-checking summaries and analytical pieces from September through Octob...
The 2026 poverty guidelines were produced by HHS by taking the Census Bureau’s poverty thresholds and updating them for price changes using the Consumer Price Index (CPI‑U); the HHS web page says the ...
Fact-checkers tracked and verified President Trump’s statements by systematically collecting claims, comparing them to primary data and expert sources, and publishing granular verdicts; large outlets ...
Major media outlets seized on Donald J. Trump’s November 4, 2025, "60 Minutes" interview and published rapid fact-checks that flagged a substantial number of — notably on inflation and grocery prices,...
updated the by applying a based on the CPI-U change between 2024 and 2025 (the official rulemaking cites a 2.63 percent price increase) . Because HHS starts from the Census poverty thresholds, applies...
lawmakers have, since 2021, leveled a consistent set of criticisms at ’s economic policies: that excessive federal spending drove high , that regulation and energy policy hurt producers and consumers,...
Alaska and Hawaii have higher 2026 federal poverty guidelines because HHS publishes separate, higher FPL dollar amounts for those states to reflect their distinct cost environments and statutory adjus...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) waits until the prior calendar year has finished to publish the next year’s poverty guidelines because the statute and administrative practice require...
President Trump’s Dec. 17 prime‑time White House address mixed accurate statistics, misleading presentations and a number of demonstrably false or exaggerated claims — particularly about inflation, in...
Cost‑of‑living adjustments (COLAs) tied to official poverty guidelines raise the dollar thresholds that determine program eligibility and benefit calculations—HHS updated the 2025 poverty guidelines t...