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...rapidly going bankrupt. But the boost outraged many Americans, especially those who pay the maximum levy for Social Security ($1,071 this year) and resent the fact that they are paying an increasingly large share of the nation's taxes. According to the Treasury Department, the most affluent households-those with annual earnings of $17,000 or more-received half of the nation's personal income in 1976 but paid 70% of all federal, state and local taxes, up from 68% in 1970. Next year the maximum Social Security tax paid by both employers and employees is scheduled...
...garnish the truth when he writes of suburban lawns "green with money." And admittedly not everybody rushed to get at the $13,000 Chinese vases when the new Neiman-Marcus store opened last November. But by the most telling measure?family income?Washington has fattened into the most affluent metropolis in the country...
...mother, Phyllis, was a laughing, cuddling person. Phyllis worked in a flower shop when her two daughters were growing up, and Vernette, four years older than Cheryl, took care of her little sister. The Tiegs family went to Quaker meetings on Sundays. They were healthy and moderately affluent. The girls did well in school, and though Vernette was the more intellectual, Cheryl got good grades, played the violin skillfully enough to qualify for a city-wide youth orchestra, and read a lot. She was, appropriately, a pom-pom girl...
Paul Mazursky's best movies - Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Blume in Love and now An Unmarried Woman - are bulletins from a combat zone. The battlefield is affluent urban America; the war is the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Mazursky describes the skirmishes in all their neurotic glory, tots up the emotion al casualties and tries to identify the survivors. He does so with both compassion and dark wit, and the result has been a remarkable string of films that document the changing mores of an exasperating decade. Indeed, Mazursky's social report...
Daugherty says poverty and lack of education are the two main problems West Virginia women must overcome, unlike many of their more affluent sisters in other regions. More than half of the Appalachian women live in rural areas; most of the 29 per cent who work outside the home have only a tenth grade education and hold low-playing jobs. Three years ago, however, the United Mine Workers opened coal mining jobs to women, and these jobs pay more than most available to rural people. In Daugherty's view, the economic advantages of mining jobs for women outweigh their drawbacks...