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Show Families Are Learning to I)o Without In Coping With Inflation, Recession By Jeanne Lesem United Press International Most families cope with inflation and recession in familiar waj s They cut down and-o- r cut out purchases of They work overtime and-o- r look lor second jobs The poor and retirees on fixed incomes often must choose between paying their rent or going hungry. Some people find illegal alternatives. . survey recently released quotes one Is ew Yorker as saying he his $ll,000-a-yea- r income as personnel director of a hospital by fencing stolen goods. Shares Card A young Puerto Rican mother on welfare said she shared her medical insurance card with a girl friend because it covered visits to private hospitals and private doctors. The fence, a white male resident of a middle income housing project, said he was happy with his legal vocation but dissatisfied with the hospital job because of lack of ethics in the work environment. He also said he and another homosexual, a student, had ben living as a married couple for three years. In the borough of Queens, a black wife, mother and nursery-schooteacher with a master's degree Research on Human Affairs of CUNY's school and funded by the Center for the Study of Metroo!itan Problems of the National Institute of Mental Health. Making Ends Meet How families Cope With Inflation and Recession" reveals that 64 percent of those ques-tionin the four-are- a survey still had faith in the free enterprise system. Only 12 percent had lost faith and 24 percent wre undecided. Poor and Retired The poor and the retired were oversampled deliberately, Caplovitz said, because theory suggested inflation and recession hit hardest at the poor, the poorly educated, and unskilled prersons, blacks and the Spanish-speakinResults of the that Fifteen percent of those interviewed in the larger study had incomes below $7,000 a year, 15 percent were retired, 39 percent had white collar jobs and 31 percent were blue collar workers. The most prevalent coping pattern was cutting down: half the respondents said they had cut food expenses and about the same number said they had cut down on entertaining and eating out, 45 percent cut down on expenses for clothing and 34 percent, on education said her greatest fear was of becoming ill and going to the hospital: "This would wipe me out. It's insane that m a society like this a person has to be afraid to have an operation because of cost " Respond to Survey These three persons were among respondents in a study made in the New York metropolitan area in 1975. The following year, the same research team made a survey in four major urban areas of the United States New York, Atlanta, Detroit and San Francisco. The purpose of both: to determine the effects inflation and recession have on marriage, family life, mental health and faith in the free enterprise system among families in urban areas. 1.9K2-perso- n semi-skille- d g no wholesale breakdown on mental health, marriage of family life, even though the poor and many people suffer badly, says the retired Professor David Caplovitz of the City University of New York. He is head of the research team that conducted both studies. Caplovitzs report was published recently by the Institute for . . . ( .aim. in fbc gait akf Thursday Morning, April ribaxnc 13, 1978 PageOm How to Beat Those High Costs? It All Depends on the Lifestyle Twenty percent said they had postponed dental care, and 15 percent, medical care. Fifty-thre- e persent said they had begun repairing things they used to throw away Blue collar families were more apt to look for extra jobs and overtime than other groups The poor were most likely to cut and consumption and to bargain-hun- t make repairs themselves. About 40 percent said inflation had not impacted on their marriage; 28 percent said money problems had drawn them closer together, but 14 percent said money problems had made their marriages worse. NEW YORK (UPIi Ways of making ends meet during inflation recession cycles vary widely from family to family and individual to individual Here are some tips gleaned from interviews with families in the Now York metropolitan area for a research project headed by Prof. David of the City University of New York graduate school. The New York interv lews preceded a major study by Caplovitz and his research assistants in four metropolitan areas of the United States to determine how urban dwellers' lifestyles and mental and social health were affected by inflation and recession Some couples said they had begun buying clothing at discount stores and from mail older catalogs instead of expensive specialty shops and department stores One said she bought new outerwear and went to thrift shops for second hand undergarments. Many women did their hair at home instead of going to a beauty salon. 14 01 pkg I OI I pktj. 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