Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1917 — Keeping a Family. [ARTICLE]

Keeping a Family.

The New York city bureau of personal service says that the best an unskiUed laborer’s family can hope to do at present is to live on $980.41 a year, as against $884.94 for the year 1915. The “family” with which the report deals consists of five members, father, mother, a girl of ten and two boys, thirteen and six years old. Food costs have Increased SIOO in a year, it is remarked. The report Is to be used as a basis for salary increases for laborers in the employ of the city, and Ms ■pedal reference to the street-cleaning department employees. - • '