Excerpt from Changes in the Cost of Living: July, 1914 November, 1919; Research Report Number 25, December, 1919 From an examination of the chart on the Opposite page, and from the figures presented in the succeeding pages, it appears that average prices of most articles comprising the family budget had continued to rise since the previous study in July, 1919. Moreover, the Opinion was general among those entitled to speak With authority, that for some items, particularly rents and retail prices of clothing and certain sundries, the highest points had not yet been reached. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.