| trader4@optonline.net: Mar 11 05:27PM -0700 > "Little Women" could get away with calling her family "poor" even though > they had a servant, Hannah. > Lenona. It's not a very valid comparison looking at a family of 18 from 1961, comparing it to your food budget for one today, and trying to draw conclusions on relative food prices. You really don't know what the product mix is. Here's a link that did an actual item by item comparison of 1960 vs 2008. Overall, the food prices were about the same when adjusted for inflation. http://www.clearpictureonline.com/1960-Food-College-Income.html I'm sure there are other resources on this as well. |
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