TCT-ECO-002 · Inflation
Inflation “costing a typical family $28,000”
Statement and context
“Kamala casts the tie-breaking votes that gave us the worst inflation in American history costing a typical family $28,000.”
August 19, 2024, campaign rally, York, Pennsylvania.
What the evidence shows
CPI measures the change in prices for a market basket, not a cumulative bill charged to a “typical family.” A dollar estimate depends on the household’s baseline spending, which dates are compared, changes in quantities and substitutions, income growth, geography, and household size. Prices did rise materially after January 2021, but the speech did not identify a reproducible calculation establishing $28,000 for a typical family.
Unsupported. The direction of the price change is real; the precise cumulative household figure is not documented in the claim or by an official household-cost series.
Sources and attribution
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