Inflation: CPI Calculator from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Is the Biden administration staging an inflation disinformation campaign? I've provided a link below to the goverment's (USBLS) own tools used to calculate the CPI. The data tools within the site are a bit clunky, but if you are willing to dig a little, you can obtain a lot of good information on how much more you are spending on goods and services.
The results I found are based upon a start date of January 2021 (when Biden first took office) until the most recent data collection in late April of 2024. The numbers represent averages for the entire country. What you experience in your locale may be different.
From 2021 to present day: Overall inflation: +19% Gas: +55.5% Groceries: +21.3% Eating out: +21.8% Pet food: +23.1% Rent: +20.8% Electricity: +28.5% Natural gas: +22% Real average weekly earnings: -4.4%
To help get you started, here is the link: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
The first image is the landing page:
Select the CPI drop down and then select "Databases"
Scroll down until you see Average Price Data, and select the Data Finder icon.
Dig in!
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Doing whatever he ( cabal) can to dupe many people into believing economically things are just grand. When he musters 100,000 at his next rally, we’ll know he has succeeded in doing that.
@soar2newhighs I see a lot of different numbers getting tossed around, with little context behind the data in order to hide the real damage. Prices shot up dramatically during Biden's first year, partly because of supply chain shocks. Prices came back down a little once the supply chain stabilized, but then they started creeping back up again. You'll hear the corporate greed excuse...but that's total BS. Inflation has impacted everything.
