Escalation clauses are often used to facilitate the creation of long-term contracts as wages or prices fluctuate over time. In these contract negotiations, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is one of the ...

The Consumer Price Index “is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services,” according to the Bureau of Labor ...

CONCORD — The Senate Transportation Committee's chairman wants to use a consumer-price-index formula to bump up the state's gas tax to fix roads and bridges. Under the formula, the state's 18-cent gas ...

In a letter to President Barack Obama signed by a majority of House Democrats, 107 lawmakers told the president to remain steadfast in protecting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits and ...