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Inflation: How it Affects a Fixed-Income Budget

Lessons for Living Webinar Series 2025
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Learn strategies and resources to deal with inflation.

Have you visited the grocery store recently and noticed that an item you regularly purchase is more expensive than usual? According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, inflation happens when goods and services prices increase over time. In this session, we will dive deeper into what inflation is and how it affects our buying power, how we can adjust our budget with increasing prices, and provide resources to better understand the effects of inflation in our everyday lives.

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