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The Price of Things Since 2000

Consumer price indexes for selected items, indexed to 2000 = 100

College tuition: 104 in Sep 2026+4 since Jan 2026
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Current·Data to Sep 2026

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

College tuition · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days

Hospital services · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days

Child care · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days

Televisions · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days

Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. A projection, not a promise.

Price indexes adjust for quality, so falling TV prices partly reflect better sets at the same price.

Services that people provide have grown more expensive while manufactured goods have grown cheaper. Each line starts at 100 in 2000, so the chart compares growth, not price levels.

What this chart reads

Sources

CPI — College Tuition and Fees. Source: Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of the Consumer Price Index program. Palanor retrieves the series directly from BLS because the Federal Reserve Economic Data system does not republish this level of the education subindex.

CPI — Hospital Services. Source: The series is published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of the Consumer Price Index. Palanor pulls it from the FRED API nightly.

CPI — Child Care and Nursery School. Source: Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of the Consumer Price Index program. Palanor receives the series from BLS.

CPI — Televisions. Source: Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as a component of the Consumer Price Index. Palanor receives the series from BLS.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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