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Dollar Goes Further
For Local Workers
How much better off is the average Rappahannock County worker today than he was 6 1/2 years ago, when the business boom began. Such stock-taking is appropriate at this time since the boom is still alive, technically. The economy is continuing to expand, although at a much slower pace than before.
Next month, according to the economists, it will be 80 months old, equalling induration the record boom of the early 1940’s. The “before and after" pictures of the average wage
89.2%