US income and expenses The table is income and expenses in the US in 1980 and 1985. It displays figures of food, housing, medical, entertainment, savings and others expenses.It could be seen from the

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Irina Andryushchenko

US income and expenses The table is income and expenses in the US in 1980 and 1985. It displays figures of food, housing, medical, entertainment, savings and others expenses.

It could be seen from the table that food, housing and medical expenses grew in this five-years period. For example, food expenses went up from 18% to 22%. In the same way slowly increased medical expenses - from 10% to 12%. Here should be noticed, that these changes are minor. The most dramatic rise here are housing expenses - its grew from 25% to 32%.

Some expenses (savings and entertainment) had not change at all - in both 1980 and 1985 they were alike each other (5% for saving and 7% for entertainment). Attention should be drawn to others expenses, because its declined from 1980 to 1985 by 13%. For this table it fell, no doubt, too rapidly.

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US income and expenses

The table shows income and expenses in the U.S. in 1980 and 1985. It displays figures for food, housing, medical expenses, entertainment, savings, and others expenses.

It can be seen from the table that the shares of food, housing, and medical expenses grew in this five-years period. For example, food expenses went up from 18 percent of total expenses to 22 percent. In the same way, medical expenses increased slowly - from 10 percent of total expenses to 12 percent. It should be noticed here, that these changes are minor. The most dramatic rise here is for housing expenses - they grew from 25 percent of total expenses to 32 percent.

Some expenses (savings and entertainment) did not change at all - in both 1980 and 1985 they remained the same (5% for saving and 7% for entertainment). Attention should be drawn to the category of others expenses, because they declined from 1980 to 1985 by 13 percentage points. For this table it fell, no doubt, too rapidly. [I don't understand this last sentence.]

Comment: If the table is supposed to be using U.S. English, I think it is incorrect to label the last category as "Others." It would normally be "Other."

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