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SO months. Partially offsetting the gain was the rise in the cost of living, which was between 10 and 11 percent. The net result is that the average local worker is now able to buy more in the way of goods and services, after a day on the job, than he could formerly. With 40 minutes of his time he earns enough, for example, to purchase .a pound of American Cheddar cheese. With 146 minutes he can buy a doublesize percale sheet and, with 187 minutes, a woman’s nylon tricot slip. These items, and most others, would have cost much more, in terms of work time, in 1961. A special study by the Tax
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