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[–] 4 points 1 year ago

The CPI has been changed a number of times over the past 5 decades, each change lowering the rate. By the old rate just in 2008 social security checks would be on average some 1,200 more a month.

https://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/numbers-racket/

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