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A newspaper article once reported that the U. S. economy was experiencing a low rate of inflation. It said that "low inflation has a downside: 45 million recipients of Social Security and other benefits will see their checks go up by just 2.8% next year." a. Policymakers link increases in Social Security and other benefits to inflation because they are hoping to get more people in the U. S. interested in topics like inflation. they cannot link benefits to the stock market because of the Great Recession. the Bureau of Labor Statistics lobbied to link benefits to inflation in the 1980s. they wish to ensure that the real value of these benefits is constant over time.

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