The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has stopped collecting price data in Lincoln that’s used to help calculate the nation’s inflation rate.
The consumer price index, or CPI, measures the change in average prices that consumers pay for everyday goods and services. Data is collected for the index by recording the prices of goods, like food and cars, and services, like housing and medical care, from around 23,000 retailers and service providers in 75 urban areas.
On Wednesday, the department announced that CPI data collection had been suspended in April in both Lincoln and Provo, Utah. In June, data collection was suspended in Buffalo, New York…