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Inflation is under control.
The bad news is that workers' benefits posted the lowest increase since anyone in the government cared enough to start keeping track back in 1982. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Employment Cost Index has all of the slippery little details. The Bluff City ranks fifth in auto thefts nationally, according to a recent report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Of course, instructions are included. The next time we ask our boss for a raise, she'll probably tell us to be glad that we can't afford a car anybody'd want to steal.