The US Bureau of Labor Statistics public API contains all sorts of interesting data, including current and historical Consumer Price Index or CPI. CPI is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by US consumers for common goods and services. There is data broken out regionally and across different market categories, but this project uses the universal all items data as a baseline for comparison.

1994 is reportedly the year that Curtis Jackson adopted the nickname 50 Cent. This project uses the latest CPI value compared with the value from June 1994 to calculate how much 50 cents from 1994 would be worth in today's money adjusted for inflation. A dithered grayscale photo of the half-dollar Yankee's fan himself is displayed as a reminder to hustle harder and smarter. It's too early to tell what effect the removal of pennies from circulation might have on inflation - luckily the half dollar coin is safe for now.

This project was inspired by the 50centadjustedforinflation.com website made by Brian Moore.

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