Of course, you probably don’t spend on the exact same things, or buy the exact same amount, as people on the other side of ...

What's more, surveys have shown that Social Security checks are necessary for seniors to make ends meet. A poll from ...

Social Security is an important income source for seniors and it’s money that most people look forward to getting in ...

If you receive Social Security benefits, your payments are getting bigger this year. That’s because you’re getting a Cost of ...

In a periodic review, South Africa’s statistics agency lowered the weight of housing in the basket of goods used to calculate the consumer price index to 24.1% from 24.5%. Even so, it remained ...

For instance, let's hypothetically say the collective price for a large basket of goods and services ... leading retirement program. The CPI-W has north of 200 different price categories, all ...

necessitates for the third year in a row a change in the usual approach to updating the goods weights. Despite the challenges in the current corona crisis, price statistics are working on the reliable ...

WONG: And the ALICE basket of goods and services looks pretty different from the one that the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses for the Consumer Price Index. Take food, for example. HOOPES ...

Meet ALICE. It's an alternative inflation metric, designed to measure the effects on price movements on economically stressed households better than more traditional models like CPI.

On a monthly basis, the CPI rose ... representative basket of goods and services. Headline inflation is usually expressed as a percentage change on a month-on-month (MoM) and year-on-year (YoY ...