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...Northern unemployment is higher, Southerners say they need their greater share of federal spending because they have more poverty to deal with. Nearly 14% of Southern families are classified as living in poverty, compared with less than 9% in the North, where pay packets are fatter. For example, per capita income in New England averaged $6,590 in 1976, while in the South Atlantic states it averaged $5,861. Northerners reply that their higher living costs, especially for fuel and taxes, make that statistical advantage meaningless. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, a Boston family of four needs...
...crunching handshake and grammar that makes high school English teachers Cringe in disbelief, has conjured up the specter of southern populism--a specter that has emerged from the hinterlands of Mississippi now that the race issue ceases to becloud class divisions in the state with the lowest per capita income in the nation...
...researchers also plan to study the relation between a nation's per capita GNP and its government's attitude towards human rights, and will make recommendations on U.S. foreign policy towards East Asia...
Carter said the population of the world will almost double, the income per capita will double and the bulk of the world economy will quadruple...
...recent issue of the Financial Analysts Journal, Gutmann argues that there is in the U.S. nearly $400 in cash per capita floating around outside banks. With checks and credit cards, who needs all that green? His answer: "This currency lubricates a vast amount of nonreported work and employment," and the amount is as large as the legal G.N.P. of the U.S. in the middle of World...