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| Aging and Work: A Journal on… | 1 |
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Lamale, Helen H. – Aging and Work: A Journal on Age, Work and Retirement, 1978
The author evaluates the Consumer Price Index (CPI) used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to make cost-of-living adjustments to retirement benefits and considers the need for a separate retiree index. Stating that the CPI has underestimated inflation's impact on retirees, she recommends revised BLS retiree budgets. (MF)
Descriptors: Budgets, Cost Indexes, Expenditures, Income
