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Query
How they overlap
Of the articles on each keyword in the last 7 days, with the same text and sources, how many also mention the other. Per lean: the share of its outlets' articles on cost of living that mention Congress.
4.4% of the 91 articles on cost of living also mention Congress, as do 3.9% of the 104 articles on Congress.
- Left-leaning1 of 44 articles
- 2.3%
- Least biased3 of 10 articles
- 30.0%
- Right-leaning0 of 37 articles
- 0.0%
Who picked it up when
The Hill mentioned it first (Oct 22, 2026, 10:46 AM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 26 hours later. No right-leaning outlet mentioned it.
One row per source with a matching article, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Results
4 articles mention cost of living and Congress in the last 7 days (Oct 21 to Oct 27).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hill | California has become unaffordable — but Congress can do something about itThe Hill California Reps. Vince Fong and James Gallagher introduced two joint resolutions to overturn the California Air Resources Board's Vessels At-Berth and Commercial Harbor Craft regulations, which they argue act as hidden climate taxes increasing costs for consumers. | 0.70 | |
| The New York Times | Here’s What Democrats Plan to Do With Their Power if They Win Back CongressThe New York Times Democrats have campaigned on lowering living costs and holding the Trump administration accountable. This is a look at their to-do list if they win the majority. | 0.55 | |
| The Hill | What Democrats would do about Gen Z’s housing crisis if they win CongressThe Hill Generation Z wants legislation that targets affordability and housing costs. Democrats think they can do it better than Republicans. About two-thirds of young adults struggle to cover housing costs. And recent housing numbers aren’t promising, either: Single-family housing starts and building permits, a measure of future construction, fell 4.56 percent and 4 percent in September,... | 0.50 | |
| The Hill | Costs, Iran voters' top priorities for next Congress: SurveyThe Hill A majority of respondents to a recent survey want the next Congress to focus on lowering the cost of living and winding down the Iran war. Roughly 80 percent of the 1,119 respondents to the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll said lawmakers should make lowering prices one of their highest priorities in... | 0.70● |
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Narrow further
Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles. The search icon searches for cost of living and that keyword instead of Congress, keeping the text, sources, source type and time range.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| The New York Times | 0.4% | 1 | 255 |
| The Hill | 0.9% | 3 | 348 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased1 of 8 sources
- 0.1%
- Right-leaning0 of 15 sources
- 0.0%
Lean index −1.0: covered more by left-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.