Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during news conference at the U.S. Capitol on March 9, 2017 in Washington, DC.

If your sense is that most of what you pay for month to month, from child care to health care, costs way more than it did a decade ago, even accounting for inflation, you're right. An infographic originally published on the blog of the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute makes clear that while a few items have gone down, proportionally, in price, a lot of the things that matter have gotten more expensive.

This version, provided by AEI, has been updated slightly from the one previously published. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it shows that Americans now get great deals on TVs. Clothes, home furnishings and cars are also cheaper. But for many crucial fixed costs, prices have shot up. Medical care, child care and education all cost significantly more than they used to. Helaine Olen wrote about this phenomenon in her book "Pound Foolish." "Housing, health care, and education cost the average family 75 percent of their discretionary income in the 2000s. The comparable figure in 1973: 50 percent."

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