{"id":160409,"date":"2025-09-16T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160409\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:08:10","slug":"the-us-is-hiring-staff-to-fix-cpi-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160409\/","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":2,"featured_media":160410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-160409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}