Watching Your Wallet: The ABC Price Tracker designed to help you budget

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- When it comes to balancing a budget, cognition is power.

ABC Data journalists person created a instrumentality to simplify what look similar skyrocketing prices.

"This is thing we've been asked for. People privation to cognize however overmuch things are costing successful their country and however overmuch that's changed implicit time," ABC News Data Journalist Maia Rosenfeld said.

ABC PRICE TRACKER: See however your outgo of surviving has changed with the ABC Price Tracker

Rosenfeld says the squad analyzed national information from the 100 largest metro areas crossed the country. The 3 main categories are groceries, lodging and gas.

"We included the astir communal basal goods that person information disposable from reliable sources," she said.

See however lodging costs successful your country comparison to the nationalist average. Or store the aisles of the market store to determine however overmuch you privation to spend.

"You tin scroll down idiosyncratic items successful each class and truthful beverage and food and yogurt you tin spot for each 1 not lone what it costs nationally and successful your area, but however that's changed implicit time," Rosenfeld said.

The sticker terms whitethorn not beryllium arsenic shocking erstwhile you spot the information accounts for inflation.

"So your market fund isn't going to screen what it utilized to not due to the fact that nutrient is little affordable but due to the fact that your wealth isn't worthy arsenic overmuch anymore," Rosenfeld said.

Rosenfeld adds the information journalism squad wanted to enactment the powerfulness of terms information into the consumers' hands to pass their fund decisions.

"If you're deciding connected cutting backmost connected groceries oregon cutting backmost connected proscription costs you request to cognize successful your country are groceries comparatively much costly than they utilized to beryllium compared to gas," she said.

The terms tracker volition continuously update arsenic information becomes available.

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