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PEN TO POWER RESEARCH DIVISION
Affordability Index
Measuring what your paycheck actually buys
A living, evidence-based index tracking affordability across all 50 states and the District of Columbia through 20 independently verifiable measures organized into six connected economic pillars.
⌂Housing30%
▥Purchasing Power20%
◫Necessary Costs20%
▤Tax Burden10%
◇Debt & Resilience10%
●●●Supplemental Poverty10%
20Verifiable measures
6Connected pillars
51Jurisdictions
LIVEUpdated with official releases
OPENPublic review welcomed
THE AFFORDABILITY TIMELINE
2019–2026
2019 is the pre-COVID baseline. Each year will show how affordability changed, which pillars moved, and the measurable forces associated with that movement.
2019Baseline
2020Disruption
2021Reopening
2022Inflation
2023Rate shock
2024Pressure
2025Preliminary
2026Live
Long-range archive planned: 1972–present, tracking purchasing power in the post-gold-convertibility economy.
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Enter American constitutional history through ten landmark decisions, their questions, timelines, votes and primary opinions.
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THE PEN TO POWER STANDARD
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The Affordability Index uses the best official data available on the publication date. When a source agency revises a release, Pen to Power recalculates the affected results, documents the revision and preserves the previous version as part of the permanent public record.
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