Are you better off? To paraphrase an old Democratic Party campaign tag line: “Are you better off today than you were two years ago?” Inflation is 8.5%. The interest rates are climbing. My Social Security cost of living increase was consumed by the.
On a frosty February evening in 1972, a dozen or so low- and moderate-income parents met at the Family Center on West Street, in the heart of what was then known as the “low rent” section of Lebanon, across from the E. Cummings Leather Tannery on High.