Low-income Families and Economic Stability: Materials on the Problem of Low-income FamiliesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - 138 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
2-person families 20 eeee eeee 64 years old ages Both sexes average Bureau of Labor cash income Census color of family color of head consumer finances consumer units Denver Department of Commerce Detroit eeee eeee eeee employed employment end of table estimates expenditures fami families with head families with incomes family head farm and nonfarm farm families farm laborers farm operators farm wage farmers Federal Reserve System Federal Security Agency footnotes at end hired farm workers Household operation Houston included income groups incomes of less individuals by income industry insurance benefits Labor Statistics less than $1 level of living low-income families Male nonwhite Male white nonfarm families nonmoney income number of earners Numbers in thousands old-age old-age and survivors proportion receiving less rent Rural service workers Sex and color shown where number single consumers Source spending units U. S. Department Unem wage credits women
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Página v - Section, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC 20551. Transaction category, or sector 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 19 76 19 77 19 7В 1 Total funds advanced in credit markets to HI H2 HI H2 HI...
Página 85 - The professional and scientific service shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to perform routine, advisory, administrative, or research work which is based upon the established principles of a profession or science, and which requires professional, scientific, or technical training equivalent to that represented by graduation from a college or university of recognized standing.
Página 89 - A considerable body of data has been accumulated on consumers' plans and expectations from the Survey of Consumer Finances, conducted for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System by the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan [39, Ch.
Página 5 - Besides the problem of raising productivity, there exists in some industries and localities a separate problem of insuring that workers receive full compensation for their efforts. Minimum-wage legislation is, therefore, germane to the subcommittee's study. Fifth. Nonwhite families make up a significant group of the lowincome families. Of the nonfarm families with incomes below $2,000, about 800,000 — or one-eighth — were headed by nonwhite males. This proportion of nonwhites in the low-income...
Página 52 - unrelated individuals," as used in this report, refers to persons 14 years old and over (other than inmates of institutions) who are not living with any relatives. An unrelated individual may...
Página 85 - A craftsman is one engaged in a manual pursuit, usually not routine, for the pursuance of which a long period of training or an apprenticeship is usually necessary, and which in its pursuance calls for a high degree of judgment and of manual dexterity, one or both, and for ability to work with a minimum of supervision and to exercise responsibility for valuable product and equipment.
Página 1 - LOW-INCOME FAMILIES AND ECONOMIC STABILITY INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY The Employment Act of 1946 sets forth as basic economic goals of the Nation the promotion of maximum employment, production, and purchasing power. One of the first essentials to the achievement of these goals is a thorough appraisal of the income and consumption of the population, to be followed by positive remedial action where needed to foster expanded production and consumption by all economic groups. That a part of our population...
Página 85 - ... its policies. A manager is one who manages all or a part of the business of another person or agency; who has large responsibilities in the making and/or in the carrying out of the policies of the business; and who, through assistants, is responsible for planning and supervising the work of others. An official of a company, a corporation, or an agency is an officer whose work involves large responsibilities in the making and/or in the carrying out of the policies of the concern or agency, and/or...
Página 2 - We are still incredibly poor and shamefully backward when measured by the yardstick of our unexploited possibilities. The areas we have conquered, in the matter of living standards and general improvement, are pathetically small when compared with the uncharted spaces still to be conquered. The American people are well off from the vantage point of any European or Asiatic people. I submit, however, that they are far from well off from the vantage point of what we could produce and could consume *...
Página 85 - Those occupations are considered semiskilled for the pursuance of which only a short period or no period of preliminary training is necessary, and which in their pursuance call for only a moderate degree of judgment or of manual dexterity.