The median annual wage for social workers was $44,200 in May 2012. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $27,450, and the top 10 percent earned more than $72,980.
Ration stamp. A ration stamp or ration card is a stamp or card issued by a government to allow the holder to obtain food or other commodities that are in short supply during wartime or in other emergency situations when rationing is in force. Ration stamps were widely used during World War II by both sides after hostilities caused interruption to the normal supply of goods. They were also used after the end of the war while the economies of the belligerents gradually returned to normal. Ration stamps were also used to help maintain the amount of food one could hold at a time.
1A fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime. â1947 saw the bread ration reducedâ. âSo the refugees are having to swap some of their meager food ration for other vital supplies that they are not given.â. âAlthough even those sacred cows have had their hay ration reduced in the last few years.â. âTwo pounds of food a day was their ration, including âmeat fibre mixed with fatâ.â.