Not with the cost of living index the way it is.
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According to the ACCRA Cost of Living Index for the second quarter of 2011, Baltimore was at 119, and the Bethesda area sat at 129.
In addition to purveying the world's most ruinous roast, Moscow topped Mercer's overall cost of living index for the third year in a row, finishing ahead of Tokyo and London.
More than 50, 000 individual prices are collected in each survey round, and a cost-of-living index is calculated from the price data to express the difference in the cost of living between any two cities.
We also incorporated Economy.com's business cost index, which looks at labor, tax, energy and office space costs and its living cost index, which factors in housing, transportation, food and other household expenditures.
The main feature of the Living Planet Report is the Living Planet Index which tracks the health of the world's ecosystems by monitoring 9, 000 populations of more than 2, 600 species.
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Cost Of Living Extremely Well Index Jody Yen Our CPI for the Lear jet set is up only 2.8% this year.
Over the past 12 months, our Cost of Living Extremely Well Index (CLEWI) climbed 4%, keeping pace with the CPI.
To those who talk a great deal but have yet to act you know who you are you can now put yourself on the Scrooge 400 Index until you start living in contribution.
Daniel Moynihan, D-New York, says the consumer price index overstates the cost of living between .7 and .2 percent.
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The researchers found that sitting was associated with a higher death risk after controlling for factors including age, gender, smoking status, physical activity, education, body mass index, as well as living in an urban or city environment.
Differences in gender, body mass index or whether a person was living alone did not affect the risk factor, they said.
The consumer price index, which determines that cost of living adjustment, is too generous, according to a study commissioned by the Senate Finance Committee.
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The CPI was a more "appropriate" measure for changes in the cost of living of pensioners and benefit recipients than the retail price index (RPI), he said.
We took the job-growth and cost-of-living rankings, and added to the mix a housing affordability index from research firm Moody's Economy.com and a salary index from Seattle-based compensation collection firm PayScale .
Complicating the budget situation is the president's decision against a commission to study a downward revision in the Consumer Price Index, which would reduce cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security recipients and trim other federal benefits.
He also wants to index it to the Consumer Price Index which means automatic adjustments to the cost-of-living (but not to labor conditions), ensuring that inflation cannot take the pressure off or undermine, depending on your ideology the minimum wage level.
This latest edition tabulates more than 100, 000 living people, most (but by no means all) Britons, replete with index.
Investing in actively-managed mutual funds that charge high fees can lower your standard of living in retirement by as much as one-third over a low-cost index fund strategy.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have minimum wages above the federal level, and 10 states index their minimum wage to inflation to automatically rise with the cost of living.
Put aside for the moment the impossibility of concocting a true price index the Consumer Price Index, for example, allocates less than 1% of the cost of living to health insurance!
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Lu suggested the government adjust the basic living allowance and food subsidies for university students every three months according to changes in the consumer price index.
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