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History of inflation in the US from Jan 1914 - Mar 2009. Year-over-year data calculated for each month using (This year-last year)/last year: Date: 27 April 2009: Source: CPI-U (all urban consumers, U.S. cities average) data from Department of Labor / Bureau of Labor Statistics . Author: Lalala666: Other versions: longer time-scale
"The chart shows an overlay of [year-over-year CPI change in the 1970s with that of 2014 to the present]. ... almost an exact mirror image. The 1974-1975 inflation peak looks very similar on the ...
Historical inflation, using data from (pre-1913: McCusker study; post-1913: CPI-U [annual averages]) Pre-1774 data can be found in How Much is that in Real Money?: A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States [0-944026-33-8] McCusker (not shown in linked source)
In January of each year, Social Security recipients receive a cost of living adjustment (COLA) "to ensure that the purchasing power of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits is not eroded by inflation. It is based on the percentage increase in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W)".
And though these figures come from a different data set, Friday’s jobs report showed wage gains continued to impress, rising 0.6% over the prior month in January and 4.5% over last year. And ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' December Consumer Price Index (CPI) posted a 7.0% year-over-year increase at the end of 2021 in the fastest increase since 1982. This matched consensus estimates ...
In November 2022, the year-over-year inflation rate was 7.1%, the lowest it has been since December 2021 but still much higher than average. [156] Inflation is believed to have played a major role in a decline in the approval rating of President Joe Biden, who took office in January 2021, being net negative starting in October of that year. [157]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 2.4% over the prior year in September, a slight deceleration compared to August's 2.5% annual gain in prices. The yearly increase, which was the lowest ...