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  "name": "StateCalc Family Grocery Cost by State",
  "description": "Modeled family-of-four monthly grocery budgets for all 50 states across USDA's four May 2026 food-plan tiers, with geographic-basis and tax fields.",
  "methodology": "The four national family-of-four anchors come directly from USDA's May 2026 Thrifty, Low-Cost, Moderate, and Liberal food plans. Alaska and Hawaii use USDA's own Thrifty geographic ratio, applied consistently to all four tiers because USDA does not publish the other three tiers separately for those locations. The other 48 states are modeled by scaling USDA's national anchors with StateCalc's state cost-of-living index. Monthly plan amounts are pretax; the row separately reports the effective state grocery-tax rate and the Moderate-plan annual tax.",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution_url": "https://statecalc.com/data/grocery-cost-by-state/",
  "generated_at": "2026-08-16T15:18:40.014Z",
  "generated_at_description": "Static file generation time; not a USDA publication or source verification date.",
  "data_modified": "2026-06-18",
  "row_count": 50,
  "official_geographic_anchor_count": 2,
  "modeled_geographic_count": 48,
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      "state": "Hawaii",
      "abbreviation": "HI",
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      "official_geographic_anchor": true,
      "model_limitation": "USDA publishes only the Thrifty geographic figure; Low-Cost, Moderate, and Liberal retain the national tier-to-Thrifty ratios.",
      "source_name": "USDA Food and Nutrition Administration — Cost of Food at Home Reports",
      "source_url": "https://www.fna.usda.gov/research/cnpp/usda-food-plans/cost-food-monthly-reports",
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      "state": "California",
      "abbreviation": "CA",
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      "source_name": "USDA Food and Nutrition Administration — Cost of Food at Home Reports",
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      "state": "Massachusetts",
      "abbreviation": "MA",
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      "model_limitation": "USDA does not publish a state-specific food-plan figure; this row scales the national USDA anchors with StateCalc's state cost-of-living index.",
      "source_name": "USDA Food and Nutrition Administration — Cost of Food at Home Reports",
      "source_url": "https://www.fna.usda.gov/research/cnpp/usda-food-plans/cost-food-monthly-reports",
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      "state": "Alaska",
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      "source_name": "USDA Food and Nutrition Administration — Cost of Food at Home Reports",
      "source_url": "https://www.fna.usda.gov/research/cnpp/usda-food-plans/cost-food-monthly-reports",
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      "state": "New York",
      "abbreviation": "NY",
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      "source_name": "USDA Food and Nutrition Administration — Cost of Food at Home Reports",
      "source_url": "https://www.fna.usda.gov/research/cnpp/usda-food-plans/cost-food-monthly-reports",
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    {
      "state": "Maryland",
      "abbreviation": "MD",
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      "model_limitation": "USDA does not publish a state-specific food-plan figure; this row scales the national USDA anchors with StateCalc's state cost-of-living index.",
      "source_name": "USDA Food and Nutrition Administration — Cost of Food at Home Reports",
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      "state": "New Jersey",
      "abbreviation": "NJ",
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      "state": "Vermont",
      "abbreviation": "VT",
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      "state": "Oregon",
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      "state": "Connecticut",
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      "state": "Florida",
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