Back in the 50s and 60s, far more families could afford to raise a family with just the father working as well. While Americans can afford more usesless toys such as consumer electronics, it is more difficult to afford housing, fuel, medical and send children to college.
Different times.
You are wrong. The tax rate s in the 50's were still 90% on the wealthy. People didn't hire as many women because the men fought it. They tried to keep the head of the family as the provider and the jobs were protected for married men. Many women did not want to go back home after the war but their were not enough jobs. The wage at Westinghouse was the best in my town. It was ~$60 a week for a 48 hr. work week mandated in 1943.
Back in the 50s and 60s, far more families could afford to raise a family with just the father working as well. While Americans can afford more usesless toys such as consumer electronics, it is more difficult to afford housing, fuel, medical and send children to college.
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Thank you, that is the type of thing I can't help but think of when people on FR want to tell me how,"real wages are higher than ever", I simply don't believe it and I don't see how anyone over fifty can believe it.
My younger brother said to me recently,"you know, luxuries are getting cheaper all the time but necessities are going sky high". "Thanks, I have been saying that same thing for twenty years", was my reply.