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...Total cost: $155 billion. According to the Washington Analysis Corp., an economics- and market-research firm, a petroleum price of about $10 per bbl. for the rest of 1986 would boost American disposable income by $84 billion this year, or roughly $330 for the average wage earner. More conservatively, a Department of Energy economist estimates that if the average price of crude stabilizes this year at $15 per bbl., the saving would be $69 billion...
...forward to carrying it out or whatever I'm supposed to do." But she is hoping that her official duties will not prevent her from also carrying on with her career working in a London graphic-arts office. She would be the first royal wife to be a wage earner...
...amount would mean that nearly all individuals and families below or just above the poverty line would pay no federal income tax at all. In 1986, the poverty line for a family of four is expected to be $11,400. Under present law, if that family had one wage earner, it would pay tax on any income above $9,575. Under the Reagan plan, taxes would start only if its income exceeded $12,798. Another tax break would give a family with one working spouse the opportunity to escape taxes on $4,000 deposited in Individual Retirement Accounts. The current...
...last two or three months, we lost control of our business, and it was no joke. Nobody knew if he was losing money or how much money he was losing." A government worker, complaining that her real income has declined by 50% over the past year, put the wage earner's case succinctly: "I'm doing work that I feel is quite responsible and important, and I take home the measly sum of $200 a month. How am I supposed to live on that...
...have been millions of words-too many by far," he concludes, "many that I know I would regret if I steeled myself to review them all again. And for me, as for most twentieth-century Americans, work has been mainly a series of interludes-son, husband, father, traveler, wage earner, victim, victimizer...