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...overbear on this doesn't mean Amex considers it unimportant. "Membership Savings will be the basis for establishing a broader financial relationship with Cardmembers," reads an internal marketing piece. "In time, we plan to offer several savings and investment products" -- IRAs and annuities, for example. With millions of affluent cardholders, Amex can quickly accumulate tens of billions of dollars in deposits with nary a bank branch or broken ball-point...
...England Living Magazine, Manchester, N.H.: Aeneas Venture is financing the fledgling periodical, which is geared toward affluent New England residents sick of reading about Boston's perspective on the region. The publishers are optimistic, but the declining strength of the local economy may hamper the venture's success...
...Korean Youth Center in Los Angeles: "We see a lot of problems with identity and self-esteem. These kids look Korean, but they don't want to be Korean. They only sense that they are Asian, and then they join Asian gangs." In fact, gangs of Korean teenagers from affluent homes have replaced an earlier generation of Korean gangs that dealt mainly with turf protection and peaked in the mid-'80s. The new gangs focus on criminal activity and are made up of Filipinos and Vietnamese as well...
Fayette County is what a West Virginian might call "fair to middlin.'" With an unemployment rate of 10 percent, it ranks 27th out of 55 West Virginia counties, and 24th in earnings per job. Fayette County is neither affluent nor dirt poor. If you peer into the "hollers," you can find wretched poverty. But most of the area is dotted by modest, clean houses and neat yards...
...pathology of the affluent is the other side of the question," said lecturer in public policy Harry Spence. "How is it that the already empowered can allow such human misery and waste to continue unabated...