{"id":267292,"date":"2026-08-18T03:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267292\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T03:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:48:30","slug":"what-does-it-really-cost-to-live-in-erie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267292\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does it Really Cost to Live in Erie? | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erie\u2019s cost of living is about 14 percent below the national average \u2014 but families here say the bills still add up fast, from housing and groceries to utilities and transportation.<\/p>\n<p>So, what would Congressman Mike Kelly and his opponent Justin Wagner do to address the rising cost of living in Erie? I asked both candidates where they stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie\u2019s cost of living is about 14 percent below the national average \u2014 but families here say the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[52,136,138,137,20422,4736,112735,26644,50,2155,6482],"class_list":["post-267292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cost-of-living","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-groceries","tag-housing","tag-justin-wagner","tag-mike-kelly","tag-politics","tag-transportation","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}