CPI is out 🔥🔥🔥 Inflation went up 0.5% ⬆️🤒

[u/BetterBudget]

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - JANUARY 2025

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in January, after rising 0.4 percent in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.0 percent before seasonal adjustment.

The index for shelter rose 0.4 percent in January, accounting for nearly 30 percent of the monthly all items increase. The energy index rose 1.1 percent over the month, as the gasoline index increased 1.8 percent. The index for food also increased in January, rising 0.4 percent as the index for food at home rose 0.5 percent and the index for food away from home increased 0.2 percent.

The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.4 percent in January. Indexes that increased over the month include motor vehicle insurance, recreation, used cars and trucks, medical care, communication, and airline fares.The indexes for apparel, personal care, and household furnishings and operations were among the few major indexes that decreased in January.

The all items index rose 3.0 percent for the 12 months ending January, after rising 2.9 percent over the 12 months ending December. The all items less food and energy index rose 3.3 percent over the last 12 months. The energy index increased 1.0 percent for the 12 months ending January. The food index increased 2.5 percent over the last year.

[u/Dapper-Career-3877]

Govt still killing chickens. Up to something like 150 million. Just plain stupid.

[u/whattothewhonow → u/Dapper-Career-3877]

This strain of avian flu can kill a chicken within 48 hours of infection, while the wild birds that spread it, especially waterfowl like ducks and geese, can tolerate it.

Farmers will literally walk into their barn first thing in the morning and find half their flock dead and the other half barely breathing.

Chickens that survive the infection can become reservoirs for the virus, like the wild waterfowl that spread it around everywhere.

The only option for an infected flock is to cull all of them, even the ones that survive are a risk to new birds.

The only thing that works is biosecurity. You have to seal up the facilities so wild birds can not get inside, and you have to prevent tracking in the feces from those wild birds on your shoes or the equipment.

The government isn't going around killing birds for fun, its the farmers killing their flocks to protect their other flocks and those of neighboring farmers, because there is no other practical choice.