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...hour. California's San Juan Bautista Child Development Center, which gets financial help from United Way and the city of San Jose, has fees ranging from nothing to $20 a day, depending on the parents' income. Sniffles Medical Day Care Center in suburban Minneapolis, which serves an affluent clientele, charges $9 an hour...
Crack's low price and quick payoff make it especially alluring to teenagers. Young abusers, said Arnold Washton, a New York expert on treating cocaine addicts, "run the gamut from inner-city ghetto kids to kids from affluent suburbs." But the price of this highly concentrated drug is greater than many youngsters realize: New Jersey's national cocaine hot line (1-800-COCAINE) has found that 98% of the callers say they became addicted to crack within six months...
...College people in general tend to be relatively more affluent and less promiscuous" than others of the same age, and thus have a lower incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, he said...
Affirmative action can give members of this community a chance to experience the benefits of higher education, which would otherwise be denied them because of SAT scores inferior to those of students from more affluent backgrounds...
...while condominium conversions and posh building complexes mean profits to some and an attractive bedroom community to Cambridge's growing population of affluent young professionals, they inevitably mean prohibitively expensive housing and probable displacement for many people who now live in the city. A Cambridge housing market without rent control not only would encroach on the city's various blue-collar neighborhoods--the most common fear of rent control activists--but would also exclude many moderate and middle income professionals. Moreover, the cost of displacing many Cambridge residents would be an end to the diverse and vibrant community that...