Standards of Living: A Compilation of Budgetary Studies, المجلد 11920 - 156 من الصفحات |
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allowance amount Amusements and recreation Beans Brassieres Bureau of Labor butter calories Caps car fare Carfare cents per week Cereals Cleaning and pressing cleaning supplies clothing budget CLOTHING-Continued coal coat Cornmeal Cornstarch Corset cost of living cotton diet dietary dried Eggs estimate Fall River family of five food budget fresh Fruits fuel and light Garters Girl Gloves Handkerchiefs Hats health and decency homemade household husband included income Jaffa Labor Statistics laundry milk minimum Miscellaneous Miss Gibbs Mittens molasses month muslin necessary oleomargarine Overcoat Pairs Shoes pairs stockings Petticoats Potatoes pounds purchased quantity budget rent Repair of shoes rolled oats rooms Rubbers Shirts Shoe repairing standard family standard of living Sugar Summer underwear Sundries sweater thread and buttons three children trousers Underwaists union suits Unit price Vegetables Waists weekly wife and three Winter underwear wool workers workingmen's Yearly cost York City
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الصفحة 26 - Tentative Quantity and Cost Budget Necessary to Maintain a Family of Five in Washington, DC, at a Level of Health and Decency.
الصفحة 146 - On the other hand, an income of $900 or over probably permits the maintenance of a normal standard, at least so far as the physical man is concerned.
الصفحة 27 - A sufficiency of nourishing food for the maintenance of health, particularly the children's health; (2) Housing in low-rent neighborhoods and within the smallest possible number of rooms consistent with decency, but with sufficient light, heat, and toilet facilities for th% maintenance of health and decency; (3) The upkeep of household equipment, such as kitchen utensils, bedding, and linen, necessary for health, but with no provision for the purchase of additional furniture; (4) Clothing sufficient...
الصفحة 30 - Possible saving upon market cost by a family of extreme thrift, of high intelligence, great industry in shopping, good fortune in purchasing at lowest prices, and in which the wife is able to do a maximum amount of home work: I.
الصفحة 37 - Baltimore areas, as well as in the Government Printing Office and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
الصفحة 28 - It needs to be emphasized that the budget level adopted in the present study is in no way intended as an ideal budget. It was intended to establish a bottom level of health and decency below which a family cannot go without danger of physical and moral deterioration. This budget does not include many comforts which should be included in a proper "American standard of living.
الصفحة 16 - The following standards for permanent buildings to be constructed for the housing of industrial war workers were adopted by the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation of the Department of Labor, in consultation with Mr.
الصفحة 102 - After careful consideration of the average size of families among laborers in general, in the United States, in the city of New York and among the rank and file of the Department of Street Cleaning in particular, it was decided to select for purposes of study a family consisting of five members: a...
الصفحة 24 - The importance of recreation as a factor in healthy living need not, of course, be emphasized. It is accepted as an everyday fact. The only question is as to the character and cost of such recreation. Much wholesome amusement arises naturally within the circle of a family and its friends and costs nothing. On the other hand, the complexity of modern city life places a money price on many simple and desirable forms of amusement. Thus a picnic for a family, or a visit to the park, involves a considerable...
الصفحة 149 - City, but we are nowhere given definitely the principle of selection whereby, as the preface claims, "they were sorted out by a method as sound as could possibly be chosen," and consequently are unable to judge, except from the word of the investigator, whether the results of the investigation do or do not "give a comparatively true insight into the social, economic and industrial life of a large class of...