Where kids once played and neighbors used to hang out together, now all that remains could easily pass for a former war zone.

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All that remains is the assumption that, between now and 1999, the Bureau of Labour Statistics (which calculates the index) will make a minor fiddle to reduce it by 0.15%.

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