diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 992bb65..e08203e 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 include LICENSE
 include README.md
 include cpi/cpi.db
-recursive-include notebooks *
\ No newline at end of file
+recursive-include notebooks *
diff --git a/cpi/download.py b/cpi/download.py
index d27c25c..8963606 100644
--- a/cpi/download.py
+++ b/cpi/download.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def update(self) -> None:
 
         # Download the TSVs
         logger.debug(f"Downloading {len(self.FILE_LIST)} files from the BLS")
-        df_list = dict((name, self.get_df(name)) for name in self.FILE_LIST)
+        df_list = {name: self.get_df(name) for name in self.FILE_LIST}
 
         # Insert the TSVs
         logger.debug("Loading data into SQLite database")
@@ -93,12 +93,13 @@ def get_df(self, file: str) -> pd.DataFrame:
             logger.error(f"Error downloading {url}")
             logger.error(f"Response: {response.text}")
             raise AssertionError(f"Error downloading {url} - {response.text}")
-        
+
         # Read in the contents as an io.StringIO object
         df = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(response.text), sep="\t")
 
         # .strip() every value in the dataframe
-        df.replace('(^\s+|\s+$)', '', regex=True, inplace=True)
+        df_obj = df.select_dtypes("object")
+        df[df_obj.columns] = df_obj.apply(lambda x: x.str.strip())
 
         # .strip every column name
         df.columns = [c.strip() for c in df.columns]
diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
index 4ae5af2..8352782 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ help:
 	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M $@ "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
 
 livehtml:
-	sphinx-autobuild -b html $(SOURCEDIR) $(BUILDDIR)/html
\ No newline at end of file
+	sphinx-autobuild -b html $(SOURCEDIR) $(BUILDDIR)/html
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 63ddc06..fa8de61 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 sphinx
 myst-parser
-sphinx-palewire-theme
\ No newline at end of file
+sphinx-palewire-theme
diff --git a/notebooks/latest.json b/notebooks/latest.json
index 7e3a7f6..e6bbd2a 100644
--- a/notebooks/latest.json
+++ b/notebooks/latest.json
@@ -1 +1 @@
-{"all": {"latest_month": "2024-07-01", "latest_change": 0.2, "previous_month": "2024-06-01", "previous_change": -0.1}, "food": {"latest_month": "2024-07-01", "latest_change": 0.2, "previous_month": "2024-06-01", "previous_change": 0.2}, "energy": {"latest_month": "2024-07-01", "latest_change": 0.0, "previous_month": "2024-06-01", "previous_change": -2.0}, "less_food_and_energy": {"latest_month": "2024-07-01", "latest_change": 0.2, "previous_month": "2024-06-01", "previous_change": 0.1}, "yoy_change": 2.9}
\ No newline at end of file
+{"all": {"latest_month": "2024-07-01", "latest_change": 0.2, "previous_month": "2024-06-01", "previous_change": -0.1}, "food": {"latest_month": "2024-07-01", "latest_change": 0.2, "previous_month": "2024-06-01", "previous_change": 0.2}, "energy": {"latest_month": "2024-07-01", "latest_change": 0.0, "previous_month": "2024-06-01", "previous_change": -2.0}, "less_food_and_energy": {"latest_month": "2024-07-01", "latest_change": 0.2, "previous_month": "2024-06-01", "previous_change": 0.1}, "yoy_change": 2.9}