(From The Consumer Price Indexes Web site) The Consumer Price
Index (CPI) measures the average change over time in the prices
paid by urban consumers for consumer goods and services. The CPI
affects nearly all Americans because of the many ways it is used.
One of its biggest uses is as a measure of inflation. By providing
information about price changes in the Nation’s economy to
government, business, and labor, the CPI helps them to make
economic decisions. The President,...