Bread Per loaf
1980: $1.34 in 2010 dollars ($0.51 in 1980 prices)
2010: $1.39
Change in Real Dollars: +3.4 percent
We're not talking about artisan breads or herb-infused foccacia. The ACCRA Cost of Living Index rates bread prices by the cost of the loaf fetching the "lowest price" at the grocery store. Fortunately for toast-crunching, sandwich-loving Americans, a standard loaf in 2010 costs about as many real dollars as it did in 1980.
Median household income has nearly tripled in nominal value since 1980; in constant dollars the gain was about 8 percent. Real prices for many items stayed level or declined from 1980 to 2010. Consumers spent more, however, on such big items as college tuition and health care.
*1980 and 2009 data from U.S. Census Bureau. Estimates on 2010 median household income were not available by time of publication
While 25 million unemployed and underemployed U.S. workers are drowning, CEO pay skyrocketed by 23 percent, for an average salary of $11.4 million in 2010, according to the AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch
I'm sure you can find other sources that support this.
