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May 2001

A century of family budgets in the United States

David S. Johnson, John M. Rogers, Lucilla Tan

Throughout the past 100 years, family budgets have been produced using a variety of methodologies; these budgets are compared with new budgets that have been derived using actual expenditures of families

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