A little over a year ago, some of us lost all of it — homes, belongings, some even lives, but all of us lost something,” Bailey told the group gathered.

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Stacker used Council for Community & Economic Research data from the second quarter of 2025 to find the cost of living by state and identify the 10 most expensive.