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...Biscayne, the affluent residential island of 12,000 south of Miami, 58% of the voters chose to secede from Metropolitan Dade County and incorporate their community as a separate city. Reason: anger over Metro Dade's zoning decisions, which have led to overdevelopment and congestion, according to the secessionists. At least four other Miami-region communities are plotting their escape from the county bureaucracy...
Across the country, there is a discernible turn back to the church among educated, affluent blacks. As a young man, Baltimore civil engineer Larry Little, 41, forsook religion for radical politics. Years later, he felt isolated as the only black in his Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins and resumed churchgoing, currently at Baltimore's Bethel A.M.E. Church. Many other black urban professionals tell similar stories. Lincoln and Mamiya argue that the resurgence of interest underscores the vital need for better educated clergy...
Pursuing her own career was the last thing on Maureen Zack's mind. She and her husband of 30 years, a Michigan surgeon, had their hands full raising seven children in an affluent Detroit suburb. But eight years ago, their marriage fell apart just as Dr. Zack was beset with financial problems. Suddenly, Mrs. Zack, who had not worked full time outside the home for 18 years, was taking baby-sitting jobs and cleaning offices at night to provide for her family. Four of her children dropped out of college for a while to help pay the bills. "I felt...
...would have been the second government shutdown since Columbus Day. After a bitter partisan fight, Congress struggled to reconcile House and Senate versions of a bill designed to cut $500 billion from the deficit over five years. The final plan was bound to extract more revenues from the most affluent taxpayers than the bipartisan proposal that was dumped by the House two weeks ago. But it was also certain to inflict pain on middle-income earners, who were already outraged at the lawmakers' willingness to tax them more heavily than the wealthiest Americans...
...only 5% of the elderly have incomes below the official poverty level of $5,947 for a single person and $7,501 for a couple, 1 child in 5 lives in poverty. Even some senior citizens' groups have started paying lip service to the need to trim spending on affluent older people to free up funds for nutrition, schooling and health care for impoverished kids. One obvious way: subjecting Social Security and Medicare to means-testing so that benefits would be pegged to a recipient's ability to pay for the services independently. Another option is to fully tax Social...