The media discover the 'chained CPI'

The media discover the 'chained CPI' - Columbia Journalism Review

Timothy Noah, writing for The New Republic blog, gave a good description of why the Chained CPI may not measure the cost of living with as much ...

The Hutchins Center Explains: The Chained CPI - Brookings Institution

Michael Ng and David Wessel discuss the chained CPI as a new measure used by the government to adjust tax brackets and other elements of the tax code for ...

Chained Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U)

Designated the C-CPI-U, the index supplements the existing indexes already produced by the BLS: the CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the CPI for Urban ...

Cutting Your COLA: How 'Chained CPI' Would Reduce Your Military ...

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The Chained CPI: A Painful Cut in Social Security Benefits and a ...

3) The Chained CPI would lead to income tax increases for working. Americans. Measuring Inflation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) calculates the consumer ...

Chained CPI: The Sneaky, Complicated Idea That Could End the ...

Washington needs to know. Social Security checks are supposed to grow each year to keep up with the cost of living, and tax brackets are ...

CPI Videos - Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Consumer Price Index and Why Your Participation is Important. Understanding the Chained Consumer ...

Frequently Asked Questions about the Chained Consumer Price ...

BLS began publishing the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers effective with the release of July 2002 CPI data. Designated the C ...

Don't Forget What Happened When Obama First Proposed Chained ...

Most media coverage of the President's decision not to include the “chained CPI ... We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on ...

FACT SHEET: Impact of Shifting to a Chained CPI | Ways and Means

In general, lower income taxpayers would experience the largest tax increases. In 2021 alone: Incomes between $10,000 and $20,000: 14.5% tax ...

U.S. chained inflation rate 2023 | Statista

In December 2023, the chained consumer price index (CPI) in the United States increased 3.2 percent since December 2022.

Journalists Back on the Chained Gang - FAIR

No, the reason people are talking about switching to the Chained CPI is because it shaves a little off retirees benefit checks every year, and ...

Who's Afraid of Chained CPI? - The Atlantic

The fiscal cliff debate hangs on an arcane fix for measuring inflation. Both sides should know way we measure inflation is arbitrary and ...

COLA Concerns: Could 'Chained CPI' Make a Comeback as Budget ...

These aren't new proposals, and neither is the next one we're covering. Chained CPI and You. If you're familiar with MOAA's COLA Watch, you know ...

Chained CPI: A broken link at NPR - Columbia Journalism Review

... find its way into next year's congressional races. As those who follow this stuff has know for a while, the president's budget, released ...

Adopting Chained CPI Is a Terrible Idea on Its Own - Mother Jones

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What you need to know about chained CPI — a (relatively) simple ...

I admit it — when I read that the latest fiscal cliff debate was over chained versus unchained CPI, my first reaction was to hide my head ...

Statement by NSCLC's Paul Nathanson on the Chained CPI

A switch to the chained CPI formula to determine Social Security COLA benefits is a stealth benefit cut. It will mean that several years out, ...

Testimony Using the Chained CPI to Index Social Security, Other ...

As you know, Social Security law tries to protect beneficiaries from the effects of rising prices by specifying that a beneficiary's monthly ...

Commentary: The Debate Over the Chained CPI

President Obama's new budget will propose adopting the “chained” Consumer Price Index (CPI) for cost-of-living adjustments in Social Security and other ...