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Re:The cost of raising a child in America has soared (2018) by opencl on Monday June 24, 2019 @10:13PM (#20270587)
The weighting applied to housing, healthcare, and tuition appears to be nonsensically low compared to the fraction of income most people spend on them.

Though to be fair CPI is computed nationally and things like housing prices are so localized that it's impossible to come up with a number that makes sense across the whole country anyway.

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Re:The cost of raising a child in America has soared (2018) by JumpCrisscross on Monday June 24, 2019 @11:33PM (#20270961)
> CPI is computed nationally

There are CPIs calculated for each metropolitan area. When I'm considering my savings, for instance, I look at New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA [1] and New York-Newark-Jersey City [2] statistics.

National CPI is useful if you're planning policy. Local CPI is better for individual planning.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUURA101SA0

[2] https://www.bls.gov/regions/new-york-new-jersey/news-release...

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