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The Price of Things Since 2000
Consumer price indexes for selected items, indexed to 2000 = 100
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
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
- CPI — College Tuition and Feesas “College tuition”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI — Hospital Servicesas “Hospital services”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI — Child Care and Nursery Schoolas “Child care”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI — Televisionsas “Televisions”latest 2026-09-01
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.