In the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics computes the consumer price index which is used to find inflation rates. The bureau states that the consumer price index âis a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.â.
The earth ulis called a blue planet because of the presence of abundance of water in it. About 70 percent of the earth's crust is covered with water. And this imparts it with a blue colour as seen from the space.
...only as a metaphor.   The Earth is a planet that is in the Milky Way galaxy. The Earth is not a galaxy.   No, the Earth is a planet which orbits the Sun (which is aâ¦ star) along with several other plants, this is called the solar system. Our Sun and its planets along with millions of other stars form a galaxy called The Milky Way.