R.A.R.e publishes plain figures about everyday essentials, from public sources anyone can check. Every number names where it came from and when it was measured.
Three rules every figure on this site follows.
A figure appears only when a public source measured it. Where nothing did, the page shows "not measured" instead of a guess, an estimate or a placeholder.
Each number carries the dataset it came from and what it does and does not mean: a price index is not a bill, and reading about a topic is not buying it.
Every figure shows the period it covers. A refresh publishes only when every source answers, so an older figure reads as older rather than as current.
R.A.R.e is small and growing. This is exactly what it covers now.
Twelve-month price changes for food, clothing, shelter and energy from the U.S. Consumer Price Index, average prices for a few staples, and the topics people read most about each category on Wikipedia.
Counts of parks, libraries, cafes, community centres and similar places in the La Fayette, Georgia area, from OpenStreetMap, and a question box that answers only from the figures on this site.
More sources and longer histories, added one at a time and only once each can be measured and attributed properly.