Excerpt from Wages in the United States, 1908-1910: A Study of State and Federal Wage Statistics Since Professor R. C. Chapin estimated that a New York family consisting of a man, wife and three children under fourteen could main tain a normal standard, at least so far as the physical man is concerned, on an annual income of $900, speculation has been rife as to the number of families whose incomes equalled that sum. Controversy was futile. No recent wage study had been made, and aside from the reports of the State bureaus of labor, which were popu larly supposed to contain little or no data of importance, no available wage figures existed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.