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Here's the state of the economy in the typical U.S. household: the principal breadwinner (let's say it's a he) brings home the same paycheck he was bringing home in 1970, when Richard Nixon was President and the Grateful Dead had hair. He may think he's got raises, but when you subtract for inflation, he hasn't. Yet his family is better off than it was in 1970, with 20% more buying power...
Like all full-time dining hall workers, Amaral earns a total of $15,845 a year. But out of that paycheck comes monthly deductions for health care premiums...
Still unanswered, however, is the question of whether the paycheck stubs mailed to Reeves every week clearly indicated two separate origins--City Hall and the school committee. Reeves refused to comment last night...
...Barrys who are in need of an alternative, the answer may lie in one of entertainment's hottest new concepts: pint-size suburban parks that don't require a plane ride or two days of travel and don't take a $300 chomp out of Mom and Dad's paycheck. Popping up along highways across the country, the supermarket-size playpens are quickly capturing the niche between mega-theme parks and video arcades. The range of activities -- batting cages, bumper boats, go-cart tracks -- lures exhausted parents, bored teenagers and desperate baby sitters who prefer to spend...
...running as a citizen on a working man's paycheck," he says...