The American grocery receipt
What 20 everyday grocery items cost at U.S. city average prices, in dollars and in minutes of work at the average private wage.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI Average Price Data, Consumer Price Index and Current Employment Statistics. Public domain. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov. Average prices are estimates of the average price paid by the consumer, not estimates of price change, so the closest Consumer Price Index, chosen by data.here, stands beside them. Minutes of work is data.here arithmetic on those series, not a BLS figure, and the list is data.here's choice of 20 items, one of each.
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