Sentence examples for measuring inflation for from inspiring English sources

The Producer Price Index, measuring inflation for wholesalers, surged 1.8%.

The cut involves swapping out the traditional method for calculating cost of living increases, based on the current standard for measuring inflation, for something called a chained CPI, or chained Consumer Price Index.

The Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation for consumers, jumped 0.7% in June, according to a Wednesday release.

In the UK responsibility for measuring inflation lies with the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which is independent of the government.

Chained CPI is a tool for measuring inflation that is more accurate than the current method but which would slow the rise of benefits.

The cut would work by switching from the current standard for measuring inflation to one that grows more slowly, called chained CPI, or as the White House recently renamed it, "superlative CPI".

That includes $400 billion in health care spending reductions and a change in the way the government measures inflation for Social Security cost-of-living adjustments and tax brackets.

A case can be made (although I disagree with it) that the chained CPI more accurately measures inflation for the general population, but no expert can make the case with a straight face that it is more accurate for Social Security.

WASHINGTON -- Prominent Social Security advocates expressed deep concern Friday at news that lawmakers may change the way the government measures inflation for taxes and federal benefit programs, weighing such a move as part of a last-minute deal to raise the nation's statutory debt limit while simultaneously cutting the federal budget.

The import prices index is the first of three measures of inflation for November.

The import prices report is the first of three measures of inflation for March.