Consumer Price Index (CPI) news releases, methodology notes, and databases, 2020-2024

Why this matters here

BLS CPI releases report aggregate price-change rates across a defined basket, with methodology, revisions, and category detail that describe the large economy’s rate of change. The Economy We Don't Experience sets that chart beside the receipt: the notification can be methodologically sound while the shopper’s register total remains a different lived object—not confusion, but two accurate descriptions of different scales.