After the pay channels started encrypting their signals, his business had withered, and he was forced to takea part-time job at a company that uplinked cable programming to different satellites across the country.
By contrast, the young parents, living on only one income, or if the wife has a part-time job, one-and-a-half incomes, of which the take-home portion, after deductions for tax and pension contributions, are economizing, avoiding major purchases, trying to save a little while making ends meet.