Excerpt from Financing the Wage Earner's Family: A Survey of the Facts Bearing on Income and Expenditures in the Families of American Wage-Earners Tradition holds another form which is equally dis astrous to the making of an adequate budget. Peo ple take it for granted that a dollar and a half a day is a fair wage. Why should the wage be fixed at a dollar and a half 2 Because twenty or thirty years ago a man living in a village could support his family very decently on that amount. Is a dol lar and a half sufficient to-day? An appeal to the family budget furnishes the only answer. The im migrant has worked in Italy for sixty cents a day. Will a dollar and a half not provide a princely liv ing, and allow for saving at the same time? Write it into a budget and see! Tradition fixes the wage, however, without even considering budgetry needs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.