crs_reports: R47037

Congressional Research Service reports with summaries, authors, and topic classifications.

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id	title	publish_date	update_date	status	content_type	authors	topics	summary	pdf_url	html_url
R47037	Geographic Cost of Living Differences: In Brief	2026-02-23T05:00:00Z	2026-02-24T15:37:54Z	Active	Reports	Lida R. Weinstock, Lida R. Weinstock	U.S. Economy	Cost of living is generally important to the standard of living of individuals across the United States. Changes to cost of living over time measure how quickly prices increase in a given area compared to past prices in that same area. However, such measures (such as inflation measures for specific areas produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) do not express how cost of living differs from place to place. Geographic cost of living differences may be important for certain public policies, particularly when not accounting for these differences cause distortionary effects. The main publicly available source of data for geographic cost of living differences is the relative price parity index produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This series measures differences in cost of living between and within states compared to a national average price level index.	https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R47037/R47037.2.pdf	https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/HTML/R47037.html

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