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INFLATION ADJUSTER
Readers who want to convert any dollar figures in these pages to the values for any other year can do so easily by going to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index adjustment website, http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl