With the government shutdown putting the next official inflation report in peril, Business Insider wants to hear from people across the US about how prices have changed in recent months.
We want to see if people have noticed new price tags at the grocery store, at the gas pump, at the coffee shop, and more.
The ongoing, record-long government shutdown delayed last month's official inflation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a lack of data gathering means we may never see consumer price figures from October. The agency isn't publishing most releases during the shutdown, but it did publish the September figures on a delay so that the Social Security Administration could still calculate the cost-of-living adjustment on time.
Given the dearth of official data, we decided to take matters into our own hands. While Business Insider is a thriving publication, we lack the usual resources of the federal government and are unable to directly measure the roughly 80,000 price changes a month that BLS typically analyzes. So we're turning to you, our readers, with our admittedly unscientific survey aiming to see how people are experiencing price changes in our turbulent and uncharted economic moment.
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