Focus on Prices and Spending | Consumer Price Indexes

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Focus on Prices and Spending, Consumer Price Indexes, Volume 1, Number 3

Chart 1. CPI-U percent changes for all items, food, energy, and all items less food and energy for 2009, and first quarter 2010
Category	2009 change, not seasonally adjusted	2010 1st quarter change, seasonally adjusted annual rate
All Items	2.7	0.9
Food	-0.5	2.3
Energy	18.2	9.2
All items less food and energy	1.8	-0.2