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June 21, 2023
…Cost-of-Thriving Index (COTI). The index takes the combined cost of five essential goods and services—groceries, transportation, housing, health insurance, and higher education—and divides it by the median weekly earnings of…
June 14, 2023
…index before 2000. Figure 1. Median household income using various inflation measures, United States, 1967-2021 Since all three series are expressed in 2021 dollars, median income is equal to the…