Oneonta High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Oneonta, AL)

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Inflation has hit everyone, in- cluding teenagers. According to the Wall Street Journal, children between the ages of six and six- teen spend an estimated sixty-four billion dollars a year. To keep up with inflation they are doing more odd jobs for their parents and are insisting on higher allowances. From the number of tenth, elev- enth, a nd twelfth grade students surveyed here, we discovered that only one-third of them hold part- time or full-time jobs. Oddly enough, only fifty-six percent said they get a regular weekly allowance from their parents. Forty percent of the students said their parents provide all money for clothing over and above their allowance. A startling majority of students said they spend less than ten dol- lars a week on movies, records, dates, and game machines. Most of the kids, seventy-two percent, an- swered that they spend from one to ten dollars a week at fast food or other restaurants. One thing that was not overly surprising is the fact that sixty-two percent of those questioned said they didn ' t put any money at all into savings on a weekly basis. That shows that although we have spent some of our own money and take taken some of the responsi- bility for making that money, our chief dependency is still on our parents. ISN ' T IT DISGUSTING? Today ' allowance doesn ' t go at tar at it one did at Sutan Epparton lindt out jutt by filling up tier car. ( ■0 b 1 1 Vil: )A: 18 Student Life WITH INFLATION GOING ttraiglit lor hit wallet, Alan Baggett tayt riting pottage pricet are an everyday example.

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READY TO HELP you tp«nd money at Shea ' s, Claire Stocks knows that her job is a good way to get her own spending money. AARGH! What a nightmarel That horrid, multiarmed creature reaching, reaching, going straight (or the dollar. That ' s the way it (eels when inflation not-so-gently taps on the shoulder or rather the pocketbook of Kathy Ledbetter and Kim Williams when they go shopping for their spring wardrobes. iMPLA¥i«M Inflation 19