CONSUMER PRICE INDEX – DECEMBER 2020The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent in December on aseasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.2 percent in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsreported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.4 percent before seasonaladjustment.The seasonally adjusted increase in the […]

Labor productivity is a measure of economic performance that compares the number of goods and services produced (output) with the number of hours worked to produce those goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also publishes measures of multi-factor productivity. Click here: https://www.bls.gov/lpc/

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