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INFLATION
ago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s highest expenditure group for the second quarter of 2023, is Transportation — which increased by 5.2%, followed by the Food Group with a 1.6% increase, according to the ASG Commerce Department’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the 2nd quarter — the period...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The cost of basic food items continues to increase in American Samoa, as confirmed by the Basic Food Index (BFI) report for October, released last Friday by the Commerce Department’s Statistical Division.
And the latest BFI shows a monthly increase of 0.4% over September...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Food Group, and other typical expenses such as Housing and Transportation contributed to the 13.5% increase in American Samoa’s inflation rate for the third quarter of 2022 — July to September, according to a news release from the Commerce Department’s Statistics...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Due to “upsetting economic trends” and the high cost of living the Senate is calling on the American Samoa Government to conduct an economic impact study on COVID-19 and how it relates to the American Samoa cost of living.
This is outlined in a Senate Resolution...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Ramen noodles has the greatest price increase for August and is one of the thirteen food commodities, which contributed to the 3.4% increase in the Basic Food Index (BFI) for August over the month of July 2022, according to the BFI report for August released over the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Low income families and taxpayers are calling out to government leaders to take a serious look at the issue of high cost of living and the practice of some business owners to continue to raise the cost of items the people need for their daily lives.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Concerns over the high cost of living in the territory have been voiced by the Saole Faipule, Titiali’i Kitara Vaiau.
According to Titiali’i, it is a serious problem and the government is turning a blind eye on it. He said it appears that the price of some of the items...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Local inflation reached double digits in the first quarter of 2022… recorded at 11.6%” — an increase from 9.7% at the end of the year 2021, declared the Commerce Department’s Statistics & Analysis Division in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) 1st Quarter of 2022 report...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During virtual testimony from the territory, before a U.S. congressional committee, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga said American Samoa faces the same challenges as the other U.S territories dealing with “inflation” which he says is an issue that “we want to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One of the issues raised during the House Session this week is the high cost of goods, a contributing factor to the high cost of living, as lawmakers voiced concerns over the significant increases — from food to building materials — and urged the American Samoa...