On top of what she says, there’s this idea that someone making 30K or less for a family is paying so much in taxes that it hurts their ability to pay for medical care. There’s a disconnect there and I don’t think the President or the Republicans get that.
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11/24/2008
Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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