{"id":727,"date":"2011-10-11T15:35:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T21:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=727"},"modified":"2011-10-11T15:35:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T21:35:03","slug":"whats-the-value-of-a-dollar-a-fascinating-calculator-no-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/10\/11\/whats-the-value-of-a-dollar-a-fascinating-calculator-no-really\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Value of a Dollar?  A Fascinating Calculator (No, Really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the conversations with your parents or grandparents that began with, &#8220;When I was your age, I could buy a burger, a coke and a movie ticket for $5&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>And the typical response would go something like &#8220;I get it, Dad, (eye roll) things were cheaper back in the dark-ages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_728\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 600px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"CPI Inflation Calculator \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/CPICalculator.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-728\" title=\"CPICalculator\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/CPICalculator.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/CPICalculator.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/CPICalculator-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/CPICalculator-220x149.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Bureau of Labor Statistics \/ U.S. Department of Labor<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CPI Inflation Calculator<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It all has to do with the value of the dollar and the changes in prices of all goods and services purchased.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/data\/inflation_calculator.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a fun tool <\/a>from the U.S. Department of Labor that lets you see just how far $5, $100, $1000 could go back in the dark-ages (all the way back to 1913).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the conversations with your parents or grandparents that began with, &#8220;When I was your age, I could buy a burger, a coke and a movie ticket for $5&#8221;? And the typical response would go something like &#8220;I get it, Dad, (eye roll) things were cheaper back in the dark-ages.&#8221; It all has to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[95],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}