Low-income Families and Economic Stability: Materials on the Problem of Low-income Families Assembled by the Staff of the Subcommittee on Low-Income Families ....1949 - 138 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
$1 per hour 1940 Index age 2-person families 64 years old age of points ages Both sexes areas Bureau of Labor cash income Census color of family color of head consumer finances consumer units Denver Department of Commerce Department of Labor Detroit earning less economic eeee eeee eeee employment end of table estimates expenditures fami families with head families with incomes family head family living farm families farm laborers farm wage farmers Federal Reserve System Federal Security Agency footnotes at end Household operation Houston income groups income level incomes of less Index value Change 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 Numbers in thousands old-age old-age and survivors percent proportion rent Rural Sex and color single consumers Source spending units U. S. Department Unem value Change 1940
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Página 81 - 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 44 - Thus, a widow living by herself or with one or more other persons not related to her, a lodger not related to the head of the household or to anyone else in the household, and a servant living in an employer's household with no relatives are examples of unrelated individuals. Own Children. "Own" children In a familyare sons and daughters, Including stepchildren and adopted children, of the family head.
Página 78 - 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 77 - 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 100 - ... prosecutors, (8) judges, and others. Harry Elmer Barnes and NK Teeters have the following to say with regard to crime and income class in their extensive study of New Horizons in Criminology (New York, 1945, p. 208). The administrative processes are more favorable to persons of good economic circumstance than to those in poverty, with the result that if two persons of different economic levels are equally guilty of the same offense the one in the lower class is more likely to be arrested, convicted,...
Página 47 - Approximately 17 percent of all families were living on farms at the time of this survey as compared with only 1 1 percent of the individuals. (See appendix, tables Al and A7.) In. view of these facts it is not surprising to find that, relative to individuals, proportionately twice as many family heads 21 to 64 years old were engaged in farming, either as farmers or as farm laborers.
Página 44 - 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 ix - 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 group is considerably greater than the proportion of nonwhites in the general population, and indicates that broadening educational and vocational opportunities for the Negro may...
Página 103 - Statistics and the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics of the Department of Agriculture to work together on it, the same as they did in that 1942 study.
Página 77 - 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.