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...more than 5.5% a year-the same raise that Carter has said he will approve later this summer for 1,350,000 civil service workers. In fact, postal workers already earn an average wage of $15,423 a year, nearly 50% more than the national average for private nonfarm workers...
Basically, the statisticians define the poor by establishing a series of poverty-threshold incomes that are adjusted every year according to the inflation rate. For 1975, the poverty cutoffs ranged from $2,717 for a single person to $5,500 for a nonfarm family of four. But how are the numbers determined...
...interest of capturing the White House. Carter be came markedly more aggressive on the stump, refocusing attention on what is his strongest issue: the economy. He was aided by some dismal statistics showing that 2.5 million Americans last year sank below the poverty line ($5,469 for a nonfarm family of four) and by reports from economists that recovery has slowed during the third quarter (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). In Buffalo, Carter charged that Ford was "even worse" than Richard Nixon at managing the economy; later he told some unemployed workers that "Gerald Ford has no concern for people...
Both candidates committed some gaffes. Carter placed the Great Depression in "the 1940s," once slipped into referring to "Mr. Nixon" when he meant and corrected himself to say, "Mr. Ford." More substantively, Carter was wrong in claiming that there are fewer people employed in nonfarm private jobs than when Ford took office; there has been an increase of some 1.8 million. Carter also erred in claiming, "We've got the highest inflation we've had in 25 years right now." The inflation rate was higher earlier in Ford's presidency, in 1974. Trying to correct the use of "now," Carter...
...Nonfarm income in Texas is about 13 times greater than farm income, but agriculture plays an important role for the state's 12.2 million people, who are spread over 171 million acres. Besides leading in cattle production, Texas outpaces all other states in lambs, goats, grain sorghum, cotton, watermelons, cabbage and spinach. It also vies with Louisiana as the biggest U.S. rice grower...