The Consumer Price Index “is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services,” according to the Bureau of Labor ...
Escalation clauses are often used to facilitate the creation of long-term contracts as wages or prices fluctuate over time. In these contract negotiations, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is one of the ...
Seniors push to tie Social Security COLA to the CPI-E to better match retirees’ expenses and potentially increase benefits.
We have five of the six data points necessary to calculate the 2026 COLA. We'll have the last thing we need on Oct. 15, 2025.