Family Budgets of American Wage-Earners, a Critical Analysis ..
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"i These two studies, which, in each instance, were instituted by the city government because of a .desire to obtain a fair basis for the adjustment of wage rates paid to municipal em- ployees, were based on conditions actually prevailing. Thus the New York budget was drawn up and prices were obtained after careful study of the size of families of unskilled laborers in New York's street cleaning department, their budgetary habits and the places where their purchases were made. Simi- larly, in D...allas, expenditures by fifty actual families were studied and formed the basis for the estimated cost of maintaining a family of five in the spring of 1917. Therefore, in submitting these budgets in New York and in Dallas, respectively, to be used as a measure of wages, the intent was to indicate the minimum cost of living for wage- earners in those two cities, according to conditions as they actually existed. Shipbuilding Cases, 1917 In 1917, the continued rise in the cost of living made it necessary to take this circumstance into account in adjusting the wages of employees in the various war industries.
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