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US state cost-of-living pressure intelligence

US state cost-of-living pressure intelligence from MERIC's keyless quarterly republication of the C2ER Cost of Living Index: one row per quarter per area for the 50 states plus DC and Puerto Rico (52 ranked areas; the United States reference row is the benchmark identity gate, not a panel row). Each row carries the composite index plus the six published components (grocery, housing, utilities, transportation, health, miscellaneous; national average = 100.0), the premium vs the US in index points, the cost multiple of the national average, a per-quarter affordability rank and a documented fixed-band tier (low_cost / below_average / average / above_average / high_cost), and a cost-driver decomposition naming the two components pushing costs furthest above the national average with their point deviations. Method: parse MERIC's state table (closed 52-area table, identity-gated); quarter is read from the page's own heading, never inferred. Caveats: the index prices a professional/upper-management household basket in participating metros, averaged per state — not a median-household measure; the page carries only the current quarter, so history accrues one snapshot per quarter going forward. License: MERIC republishes the C2ER index free of charge; commercial redistribution terms are unclear — verify with C2ER/MERIC before commercial reuse. Attribution to MERIC and C2ER required.

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