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  2. United States Consumer Price Index - Wikipedia

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    However, from December 1982 through December 2011, the all-items CPI-E rose at an annual average rate of 3.1 percent, compared with increases of 2.9 percent for both the CPI-U and CPI-W. [28] This suggests that the elderly have been losing purchasing power at the rate of roughly 0.2 (=3.1–2.9) percentage points per year.

  3. Which items has inflation impacted the most? - AOL

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    Recent reporting by Bloomberg Intelligence suggests that home insurance, if included, would increase consumer inflation by more than half a percentage point than the current CPI rate of 2.5%. Experian

  4. Consumer price index - Wikipedia

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    A CPI is a statistical estimate constructed using the prices of a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically. Sub-indices and sub-sub-indices can be computed for different categories and sub-categories of goods and services, which are combined to produce the overall index with weights reflecting their shares in the total of the consumer expenditures covered by the ...

  5. What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and why is it useful?

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    The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), covers approximately 29 percent of the U.S. population. This index is used predominantly for adjusting Social Security ...

  6. Employment cost index - Wikipedia

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    It is a widely watched series by the financial sector but gets less press coverage than the more commonly quoted consumer price index (CPI), which is also prepared by the BLS. While the CPI is a measure of inflation in consumer prices, the ECI is vital as an indication of whether employment cost changes are rising or falling and so it measures ...

  7. Trump's win could lead companies to push up prices. Here's why.

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    "A tariff is a tax paid by the U.S. importer, not a foreign country or the exporter. This tax ultimately comes out of consumers' pockets through higher prices." 5 ways Trump's next presidency ...

  8. United States Chained Consumer Price Index - Wikipedia

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    The United States Chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI-U), also known as chain-weighted CPI or chain-linked CPI is a time series measure of price levels of consumer goods and services created by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as an alternative to the US Consumer Price Index. It is based on the idea that when prices of different goods change at ...

  9. Projected COLA for 2025: September update — how it's ...

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    TSCL’s projection decreased from 2.57%, when July's CPI-W came in at 2.9%. According to The Senior Citizens League But remember, this is only an estimate of potential COLA increases for 2025.