The economic plan to rob grandma's bread basket

Yet this is the kind of thing that adds up. If you calculate that rate of decrease over a couple of decades, you're talking serious money. If someone collects benefits over 30 years, using chained CPI would cut their benefits by nine percent, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. That's one week's worth of food every month if you are an 80 year-old single woman, the National Women's Law Center says.