Family+EconomySLM

Family Economy:
Some people were better off than others.

White men earned higher wages than African Americans, immigrants, and women. An economist estimated that 64 percent of working class families relied on more than one wage in the early 1900. In some cases the entire family worked, even the little ones. Many of these children did not go to school. Also women took on doing jobs as well, the ones with higher education took jobs as teachers or clerical work. But the largest employment for women remained domestic services. When people couldn't work, they relied on family or charity.