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Family Budget 1910

Can the family survive?. Family Budget 1910. Life Expectancy was 47 years Only 35% of ALL homes had electricity Less than 10% of rural areas and farms had electricity even in 1927 Average wage $200 – 400 per year! Population of Nevada was 30 Two of every 10 adults could read or write

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Family Budget 1910

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  1. Can the family survive? Family Budget 1910

  2. Life Expectancy was 47 years • Only 35% of ALL homes had electricity • Less than 10% of rural areas and farms had electricity even in 1927 • Average wage $200 – 400 per year! • Population of Nevada was 30 • Two of every 10 adults could read or write • Majority of Americans believed in God and followed the scriptures • Marijuana, heroin, morphine were over the counter US Statistics

  3. Planning menus – nutrition = healthy = no medicine or doctor bills • Did your family include any of the following for their breakfast? • .25 for dried apples = about 8 med. Apples • .56 of milk = 6 quarts or @24 servings Budgeting for a Family

  4. What about lunch and supper?

  5. Did your family by soup and spices? What did you cook in your soup? • Since there is no refrigeration – how did you store your food for the next week? Lard lasts longer than butter. • Did you have enough kerosene to cook? Lamps? • Coal for heating?

  6. Fun Facts … 5.00 in 1907 = 120.00 today Coffee grinders & Meat grinders a necessity in all good homes How about a breakfast out? Order your groceries from Sears?

  7. Redding, CA 2010 – Shasta Creek Apartments • One Bedroom / One BathRent: $775-$785Security Deposit: $600Application Fee: $25 Per Applicant • Minimum wage job take-home = 230.00 for a 40 hr/wk • Leaves the family 145.00 for expenses • Good news – at least you have indoor plumbing and a ‘fridge • Bad news – still have to pay for heating and electricity.

  8. What can you do to improve life? • 1907 – new immigrants had few options to improve life. • Why would people want to change life’s conditions? • With attitudes like that of Social Darwinism • Big Business attitudes“I regard my workers like machines – when they get old and tired I get rid of them” • What can one do? How?

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