1938 Cost of Living

Interesting, right?  But take a look at these figures compared to 2013 values.  First post contains the same prices adjusted to 2013 dollars, the next one (by cbartlett) adds actual 2013 prices of those same items, and the third normalizes the values to average (median) income.

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