The government ties its increases in salaries and entitlement
programs to the CPI. In an effort to reduce how much money is
spent, they consistently manipulate the number lower. At the
same time that they’re trying to reduce spending on these
programs, the private sector is also tying increases in wages to
this number. But this number in no way accurately reflects what
the real costs of living are. Recognizing this and understanding
the negative ripple effect caused by blindly following the
manipulated CPI number, we put this index together to help bring
clarity and understanding to a problem that is the number one
reason why people are losing real purchasing power. As we
embarked on this, we had no idea that our conclusion would be
that the manipulation by the government on the CPI is the single
greatest reason why people are becoming increasingly reliant on
government entitlement programs. What distinguishes the Chapwood
Index from the CPI is very simple but very important. The
Chapwood Index was built by s