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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clerking. Pay would be at the prevailing minimum wage level, which is now $2.30 an hour. For every dollar made by an adult, the amount of welfare received by the household would be reduced by 500. For example, if the father in the four-member household was able to earn $2,000 a year, his family's federal payment would be reduced from $4,400 to $3,400. But his total income, of course, would...
Workers at J.P Stevens earn an average wage of $3.46 an hour, which is about 30 to 40 per cent less than the national average for textile workers, Schippani said yesterday...
...were breezing along is second place after Saturday's races, looking forward to the championship invitations that awaited the top three finishers in the weekend event. But on Sunday the wind blew the wrong way for the Crimson, and Yale and Tufts eased ahead of Harvard to earn berths in next month's finals along with the first-place University of Rhode Island squad...
...srath (pop. 21,000) are also enjoying the good life. The commuters include middle-management executives at the large Ford Motor Co. plant, professors at Cologne's famous university, and chemical engineers who work at the massive refineries near the city. About 30% of the families earn more than $21,000 per year-a cut above the average for the typical German suburb. Nonetheless, a lingering frugality engendered by the war years pervades Rösrath and makes the residents far more energy-conscious than their counterparts in Hinsdale. Says Housewife Edith Szyperski, 42: "When we were children...
Many Did Well. Yet for each downbeat performance, there were many companies that did well. Xerox, struggling against stiff competition in the copier field from Eastman Kodak, IBM and Savin, posted a 12% earnings rise, to $91.6 million, about equal to total company revenues 15 years ago. American Telephone & Telegraph, which last year became the first U.S. company to earn more than $1 billion in a single quarter, did it again in the recent quarter. Earnings were $1.09 billion, up 26%. Polaroid, expected to introduce its long-awaited instant movie camera at its annual meeting this week, earned $14 million...