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...Middlesex County is in many places more affluent than other parts of the Boston area. But, though across the river in Suffolk County the requirements are less, McGill says a living wage there is $7.52 per hour for a single adult, and $18.54 per hour for an adult with one child...
...locate where it can't be speedily accessed. Even established businesses require high-speed Net connections to communicate effectively with customers, suppliers and employees. Professionals consider the bandwidth available in a locality when they decide where to work, live and buy vacation homes. The same calculation is made by affluent retirees who track investments online. At the same time, kids who aren't skilled on the Net face a growing disadvantage in college and the job market...
...Since the civil rights movement, education and economic success have increasingly trumped light skin and the right pedigree as black status symbols. Graham shows how easily ambitious outsiders can now join the black upper class. He boasts that he belongs to the Boule, a group of "the most accomplished, affluent and influential black men" in the nation. If the Boule were really all that exclusive, a social climber like him would never have...
Louis, in her first performance since her drug rehabilitation, tackles the challenging role of Carla Tate, a young mentally-disabled woman returning home after coming of age in a secluded private residential school. she is escorted to her affluent family's home is San Francisco by her eager and understanding father Radley Tate (Skerritt). There Carla is greeted by her two sisters Caroline and Heather, Caroline's new fiance and an overbearing mother (Keaton). Ambitious Carla Soon enrolls at Bay Tech Junior College where she meets Daniel McMare (Ribisi), another mentally challenged 20-something student. Danny, unlike Carla, attended mainstream...
Judging from the number of shoes on back order at Prada stores, it doesn't appear that real-life affluent women are doing all that much divesting. But here we have it anyway: a new, collective TV homage to lives of greater meaning and lower cell-phone bills. Perhaps CBS's soon-to-be-shelved sitcom Maggie Winters suffered because it didn't give its heroine a holier or more wholesome life-style alternative. Instead, it relocated a dumped Faith Ford from Chicago to her mother's house in Indiana for bonding and the occasional line dance...