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The average monthly wage in Israel is $1,000, but the mean mon- thly outlay for a family of four is $1,500, making it imperative for both spouses to work even in so-called middle-income families. Meanwhile, salaries are being eroded by inflation, and with unemployment running rife, employers are finding it easy to pay even less than the minimum wage. Yet taxes and the cost of public services are on the rise. The result, according to one analyst, is that the 1,600,000 middle-income wage earners are finding themselves being pushed down toward the poverty line. That squeeze may well be the reason why a full 80 per- cent of the people surveyed in a recent poll judged the government's performance in the economic sphere as "not very good" to downright "poor." One of the ironies of this situation is that the people who suffer most from the economic policies of the Right — the lower classes, mainly of Middle Eastern origin — are the Likud's strongest supporters. 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