Sugar House Bulletin | 1945-05-18 | Page 1 | Living Costs up 2.3 per Cent in Year, Report |

Type	issue
Date	1945-05-18
Paper	Sugar House Bulletin
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Living Costs up 2.3 per Cent in Year, Report
Type	article
Date	1945-05-18
Paper	Sugar House Bulletin
Page	1
OCR Text	Show Living Costs Up 2.3 Per Cent in Year, Report WASHINGTON. A bureau of labor la-bor statistics report said recently that the cost of living in January was 2.3 per cent higher than a year earlier. The index now is 27.1 per cent higher than the 1935-39 average. Between mid-December and mid-January, mid-January, retail prices to city wage earners and lower-salaried workers rose one-tenth of 1 per cent.
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