Show American Income Rises Risen 17 Cent Cents j Living Costs Up 3 Cents Ove Over 1942 2 9 PURCHASING POWER ember No a 1942 r 1943 s 0 l 03 p g P Cr Crr r QI d E o S E Eu Q o 0 0 u 0 0 s 3 t TORS IS HE above chart showing how howA A i the average American fared In national income changes in the last twelve months Is based on the monthly consumers' consumers study of ot Investors In vestalS vestal'S Sy Syndicate of Minneapolis The American public In November November Novem Novem- ber bel had a 3 real income of or oran oran oran an increase of fourteen cents on the I dollar over oyer the same 1942 19 month This real income is not a subtraction subtraction subtraction sub sub- traction of cash income and expenditures expenditures but an average relative of these figures designed to show how living JIving costs affect adjusted Income dollars Cash income of the American public In November was for tor every 1 a year earlier This gain of seventeen cents on the dollar resulted re re- resulted suIted from the following changes per dollar wages up twenty cents salaries eighteen cents and other income up sixteen en cents on the dollar Investment income at 0 was up eight cents Rents R in November were unchanged unchanged un un- un changed compared with a year ago Clothing and miscellaneous items Hems were up two cents Food was up seven cents |