The latest Primerica Household Budget Index™ (HBI™), which measures how inflation and wage trends affect middle-income families' ability to pay for everyday necessities, was estimated at 100.0% for September. That marked a 0.6% decline from the prior month and a 0.4% decrease from a year earlier.
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