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considerably in the local area in recent years, as they have elsewhere, it appears that Rappahannock County families have more money at their disposal today, after providing for the necessities, than they ever had. This is the case despite the fact that they have upgraded their tastes and standards of living and are, therefore, spending more for these necessities.
The studies show that even though the budget of the average family is nearly 50 percent higher than it was in 1959 the economic squeeze is not very different than it was then The will to spend has risen in tandem with the ability to do so, says the Labor Department The latest findings are that the typical non-farm family in the United States devotes 23.2 percent of its budget to food, 24.1 percent to housing and 10.6 percent to clothing. In Rappahannock County, this “m u s t * spending amounted
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88.0%