The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
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It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.
For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that shouldn't be there.
Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.
As our nation continues to slowly recover from the recession, it is clear some families are doing better than others.
The breakdown of the American family's having a disastrous impact on our economy.
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