{"id":230535,"date":"2025-09-16T05:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230535\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T05:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:05:09","slug":"the-us-is-hiring-staff-to-fix-cpi-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230535\/","title":{"rendered":"The US is hiring staff to fix CPI reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-4026719d=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-15\/bls-is-hiring-25-part-time-staff-to-collect-prices-for-cpi?taid=68c8689023276500015a32ba&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Bloomberg is out <\/a>with an interesting article, highlighting that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics &#8212; the agency responsible for preparing the CPI report &#8211; is hiring 25 price collectors.<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">These people will go door-to-door to businesses and report on prices in various locations in the United States. There is a federal hiring freeze but the agency has been forced to perform a guessing game on pricing data because it&#8217;s understaffed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">The jobs close in just a few days and that should help data quality collection in the months ahead.<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Then again, with starting pay at just $21.54 to $25.39 an hour, a hedge fund could do the funniest thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bloomberg is out with an interesting article, highlighting that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics &#8212; the agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-230535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115212237148705517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}