"About 85 percent of the average family income is now being used just to buy food to keep a family going."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

In a working-class family, an immigrant working-class family in particular, by the '30s and '40s,a child meant income, a child meant a worker.

在三十和四十年代的工人阶级家庭,特别是外来移民的工人家庭,一个孩子意味着收入增加,意味着增加了一名工人

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She says both partners have to give their time,effort and, in many cases, income for the good of the family.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

In 1998,she created Family Care Solutions, a non-profit group that helps low-income single women pay for childcare so they can attend school.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

an average family would need 27 times its yearly income to purchase a typical house.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"The reduction in our salaries has reached 30 percent." "And if we figure into that the increase in taxes, every family of a Coast Guard, police officer and firefighter will see its income reduced to 8,000 euros annually."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11