[Vision2020] Adjustment for inflation

Dale Courtney dale@courtneys.us
Sat, 28 Jun 2003 10:29:23 -0700


Don asked:
> Could someone point me toward a table which would allow
> adjusting for inflation over the past 60 or 80 years? One
> formula obviously won't do, because the rate has varied.

For an online calculator, see the US Department of Labor's site:
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

For a table of the data, see:
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt

Enjoy!

Best,
Dale

PS -- it's worth taking a look at how education spending has runaway
compared to general inflation.