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The process of measuring the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and its significance in understanding inflation
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes calendar-year and year‑over‑year CPI figures in its CPI databases and historical tables, but the specific calendar‑year average inflation rates for 2021–...
A precise, year-by-year list of for 2017–2025 is a straightforward request, but the reporting provided here does not contain a single, completed table of those nine calendar-year figures; authoritativ...
Early 2026 COLA projections rested on mid-2025 inflation trends and standard statutory formulas, but a handful of realistic scenarios — late-breaking inflation spikes or drops, data anomalies and meth...
Fact-checkers detect misleading “presidential economy” comparisons by cross-checking political claims against a small set of canonical, publicly available series — real GDP and real GDP per capita, un...
years looks different depending on the thermometer: the ’ Consumer Price Index (CPI) generally reads higher than the ’s preferred Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index, and “core” measures tha...
and ’s (FPLs) are higher than the contiguous U.S. because issues separate guidelines for those states and updates the guidelines by applying the year‑over‑year change in the Consumer Price Index for A...
are recalculated annually and applied retroactively, meaning seasonally adjusted monthly CPI series and short-run inflation rates can be revised for up to five years when the updates its factors each ...