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UAW Solidarity
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1958-03-24
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Vol. 1 No. 15
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OU AND your husband and two
kids going to bring home _
You’d have had _ nia.
$112 this week?
to have something
near that figure
in your pay envelope if you lived
in or around
September.
_
ed after making its annual budget
study for the University of Califor-
Francisco
San
last
area around the Golden Gate are
“high cost’ sections.
industrialized,
heavily
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Or so the Heller committee for® neighborhoods.
So, the budget
research in social economics decid-
,
she writes.
Eee me 4 lew enieaet
suggestion,
Another
supplied
very
by Mrs.
is
“s
e
“Quick Cocoanut Candy.
Grive a $550 used car. The husband
lunch
his
carries
every two years.
Income
ee
it into round candies and rolls
medical
pe
costs them
5470.
Bontal
,
36 cookies.
“It seems to be a big hit with my children,” she
says, “and, besides, it’s a good way | to get rid of
left-over mashed potatoes.”
If you’ve any such quick hints for appeas-
ing a snack-hungry family and, at the same
time, tidying up the icebox, send them along.
$475,
ee
A
comes to $244 and they spend $213
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on
recreation
—
an
allowance,
¢igentally, that did not
about
eh news $32.69
in-
call for the
13.85
and
‘
we
rer:
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10.20
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4.68
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9.14
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off $579
takes
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of nylons
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work.
to
spend 66c a week for newspapers
Mom gets half a
and magazines.
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til thoroughly blended) 214 cups sifted confectioner’s sugar, a dash of salt and 1% cups
She shapes
or five room apartment, rather
than own their home, and they
os
mashed potatoes and one teaspoon melted
butter. Then she adds gradually (beating un-
pote
On that amount they rent a four
$720.
Sher-
She: mixes together in a bowl 14 cup hot
cocoanut.
nual income of $5,832.
min a year, Next ts housing—
7
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or Seattle.
The Heller budget was toted up
for a figurative family of four, husband, wife and two children — a
boy 13, a girl eight — with an an- —
item
easy
rill Eppler, of Solidarity House’s clerical center,
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for a family
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her “No Bake Cookies.”
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on wax paper from a teaspoon. She says the
batch will make about three and a half dozen
of a candy
high
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there might serve in some ways
as a yardstick for a Detroit family. The committee also thinks it might be of use — for comparison’s sake — to people living in,
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TOTAL FOR WEEK
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........ $112.15
get they outline are those currently
recognized as necessary to health
and reasonably comfortable living,
minimum
needs.
that
‘rigerator—then
was
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in the budget as representative for
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of
budget,
committee’s
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course, is for a “commonly accepted” standard of living. The goods
and services provided by the bud-
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bought a certain item—say, a re > | 4
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beverages.
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in the group
families
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for
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insurance.
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adequate
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was given to
They went on the assumption that —
the children were
spit ane
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with
ith
your budget?
budget?
going to public—
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as
compare’
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What Became of Grandma?
a
And
Especially
Remember
They
the
weren’t
Her
meals
that
quick-frozen;
Cookin’
Grandma
they
fixed?
weren’t
mixed;
They weren’t de-fatted or triple-tested,
Emulsified or pre-digested.
In Frisco It's =
pre-
Grandma didn’t cook by halves.
She made her jellies from feet of calves.
She’d have gasped at her daughter’s daughter,
a Week
Who
makes her cakes
by
adding
water
To a jiffy mix from a grocer’s shelf.
Grandma sifted her flour herself.
She plucked her hens, and shelled her peas,
And skimmed her milk for cottage cheese.
Her chickens came
un-acronized;
Her whipping cream unpressurized.
Her coffee wasn’t roto-roasted
Nor her cereals toasty-toasted,
But Grandma’s stews were rich and dreamy,
Her charlotte russe was smooth and creamy,
And all day long the house was rich in.
Lovely
(Second in a series of two articles on tax deductions)
Here is a checklist of job expenses you may be
able to deduct under ‘Other Deductions,” if you
itemize deductions on the long-form 1040:
Union
@
Rig
@ Employment agency fees.
als
Says:
adaptable
and
dues
assessments.
@ Work
uniforms if distinctive
and required by your job and not
(The Treasury deto ordinary wear.
service,
work
Insignia for work garments
@
excess
half those for two.
and uniforms.
—
life in-
a
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deduct
Thus,
if a hotel
room
for
at $12, you
can deduct
$9.
If you
go.in your
car, you can deduct the entire transportation
expense even though your family goes along.)
@ Tools, instruments,
magazines and books.
@
take
Educational expenses if you were required to
a course to keep your job, but not just to
Costs
of
expenses
meals,
technical
lodging,
in excess
and
phone
of your
@ Students’ travel and living costs while away
trade
and
advance
other
employer’s
this case,
the
work
need
not
be
temporary
re-
but
- your regular job. Such board expenses away from
_ home often are incurred by transportation, truck‘ers, construction
duction,
and
too, is made
technical
workers.
on page 1.)
This de-
@ Daily round-trip
transportation
expenses
from your home to a temporary assignment away
on a summer
yourself.
(So
job.
far,
courts
have
okayed
this deduction for teachers taking required courses and attorneys attending tax institutes. These
- victories may pave the way for wage-earners who
must get special training to hold their jobs.)
@ Fees you pay a substitute to do your work
temporarily.
Child and Disabled-Dependent Care
@
ried)
A working
woman
(whether
single or mar-
or a widower who has to pay someone to
care for a child under 12 or older dependents un-
able to care for themselves, except a spouse, can
deduct
up to $600
a year of such
expenses.
To
qualify for this deduction, you and your husband,
if he is self-supporting, must have no more than —
$5,100 of combined income. In fact, for a. wife,
the deduction is reduced by the amount of combined gross income over $4,500. Thus, if you and
your husband have combined income of $4,600,
and you spent $500. for child or disabled-depend-
spent.
made
ication.
cannot
home
penses
nt con-
(You
in
one would cost $9, but you get a room for two
imbursement if you were away from home at
least one night in connection with your job. (In
tive for
of reimbursement.
conventions
from
travel
ncluded
union
of attending
@ Cleaning and repair expenses of deductible
work uniforms and safety garments.
@
urveyed »
y, a re- >
Costs
convention expenses for your wife, unless her
‘presence is required for work or ‘business reasons. But Sydney Prerau, director of the Lasser Institute points out, the government recognizes that costs for one person are not exactly
@ Safety clothing such as steel-toe shoes,
goggles, work gloves, helmets, aprons and rubber gloves.
an half |
deductible.)
not
to the other if you work in two or more places
in the same day, whether or not for the same em(Use of your own car is deductible, as
ployer.
well as train, taxi, bus and other fares.)
and police and similar workers, waiters’ jackets,
white uniforms worn 1 by nurses and laboratory
workers, etc.
@
are
@ Travel expenses for getting from one place
fire
postal,
(But commut-
ing expenses from home to your regular place of
ordinary work clothing as dungarees. But clearly
deductible are such work uniforms as those worn
delivery,
though not
even
away from your home overnight.
partment still refuses to allow deductions for such
by transportation,
location,
usual job
your
from
|
on that : |
) public
~ ent care, you could deduct only $40.
The care may be provided either in your own
home or outside, as in a nursery school. If you
employ someone who does housework for you as
well as cares for your child or disabled depend-
ompare >
ent, you can deduct that part of the expense required for the care. You can even deduct pay-
ments to your mother or other relative to care
for your child or disabled dependent as long as
you do not also claim that relative as a dependent
D’you Make Th
on
your
ese
return.
Deductions?
smells from
Remember
Grandma’s
the days
kitchen,
of long ago,
Before the age of video,
When it was custom to consume
Your
dinner in a dining room?
In those long-forgotten days
People didn’t eat off trays
Nor, perched on sofa or settee,
Nibble as they watched TV.
They didn’t sit with plate in hand
To munch their way through Disneyland,
Robin Hood, the news or fights
And other video delights.
Where do you suppose they ate
In those days, so out-of-date?
| ‘They ate around a dining table!
It’s the truth. I wouldn’t fable!
Tables were set with quaint old things
Like linen napkins in napkin rings,
Damask cloths were commonplace, _
And meals began by saying grace.
eee
eneer errata perpen
Remember the days beyond recall
‘When no one talked of cholesterol,
Appetite depressor pills
And other dietary thrills?
Remember when the meals you ate
Weren’t planned to mitigate your weight?
When every breakfast, lunch and dinner
Wasn’t planned to make you thinner?
When low-fat substitutes didn’t exist.
And no.one carried a diet list?
I recall, like a long-lost dream,
“Potatoes
mashed
with
butter
and
cream;
Fried potatoes and apple strudels,
Veal paprika and homemade noodles,
And split pea soup in a big tureen.
Now, diet candy and dexedrine
May
help
maintain
your
self-control,
But they don’t do much for your spirit and soul.
Life devoid of ice cream sundaes
.
Seems like a steady stream of Mondays.
If you like to eat, you were born too late
For eating’s plainly out of date,
_ But life progresses. You
So let’s unfreeze our diet
And, if we hurry, we’ve
The start of the evening’s
can’t turn back,
snack
time to catch
wrestling match.
—Jane Goodsell
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