.20 per year, for the
minimum budget is sufficient; the more liberal allowance is $6.80 per
week or $353.60 per year.

TABLE 4: AVERAGE COST OF SUNDRIES IN FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS,
OCTOBER, 1919

(National Industrial Conference Board)

----------------------------------+-------------------------------------
| Minimum standard | More liberal
| | standard
|--------+---------+--------+---------
Item | Average| Average | Average| Average
| weekly | yearly | weekly | yearly
| cost | cost | cost | cost
----------------------------------+--------+---------+--------+---------
Carfare: | | | |
To work | $ .30 | $15.60 | $ .30 | $ 15.60
For shopping and recreation | .20 | 10.40 | .30 | 15.60
Movies and other entertainments | .55 | 28.60 | 1.00 | 52.00
Medical care | .60 | 31.20 | .65 | 33.80
Insurance | .70 | 36.40 | .90 | 46.80
Church and parochial schools | 1.00 | 52.00 | 1.40 | 72.80
Candy, tobacco, etc. | .45 | 23.40 | .60 | 31.20
Reading material | .20 | 10.40 | .25 | 13.00
Household furnishings and supplies| 1.00 | 52.00 | 1.10 | 57.20
Organizations | .10 | 5.20 | .30 | 15.60
+--------+---------+--------+---------
All sundries | $5.10 | $265.20 | $6.80 | $353.60
----------------------------------+--------+---------+--------+---------

_The complete budget._ In Table 5 have been combined the figures given
for the cost of a year's allowance of each of the separate items
entering into the average family budget. From this it appears that
at least $1,267.76 per year is necessary to maintain a family of
five persons at an American standard of living in Fall River,
Massachusetts, on the basis of prices prevailing in October, 1919.
This would require an income of $24.38 per week the year round.

In order to maintain life at a somewhat more comfortable standard,
through allowing for slightly more liberal expenditures, $1,573.90 per
year will be necessary, or a s