What is the current U.S. inflation rate?

Visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics Web Site: Click HERELinks to an external site. to go to the BLS web site.

• On the right-hand side under "Latest Numbers" select "Consumer Price Index."
• Then under Table of Contents select "Consumer Price Index Summary."

Now answer the following questions:

1. What month (and year) is summarized?
2. What was the unadjusted CPI-U index number for "All Items" for the most current month? (Look in Table 1 by scrolling down towards the bottom.)?
3. What was the rate of inflation (All Items, Unadjusted percentage change ) over the most recent year? That is the change from the previous year, most current month. (Look in Summary or Table 1.)
4. Which two categories of goods or services had the greatest price increases for the month? Use the seasonally adjusted percentage change CPI-U
5. Which two had the largest price decrease for the month? Seasonally adjusted percentage change CPI-U