They no longer include the very essentials that the American people have to pay for every month to live, like food, housing and energy. Without these items, the inflation rate is low. With them, it is much higher.
The Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) is a joke.
The Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) is a joke.
I agree but it’s better then nothing. And the more that rely on the raise both seniors and young people and working class perhaps the raise can be changed on how they do the COLA. It is pitiful that some want to make the COLA worse then it is now. We have some big time idiots in the political world. While every politician is a millionaire, they expect their subjects to live on peanuts (if you are lucky).