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...counter at Pinky's, a downtown lunch spot, Mark Murphy, a heating technician, expresses anxiety about his relatives back in Jersey City, N.J., but he can't muster much concern about himself. Like a lot of Montanans, whose state ranks near the bottom in per capita income and near the top for residents with multiple jobs, he's preoccupied with the poor economy. "People here are just worried about feeding themselves and having a job," he says. This comment draws nods from diners on nearby stools. It has been a long winter--they are always out here--and the white...
...furor over SUVs isn't that it's groundless--SUVs do pollute--but that it's carried out in a strange void, as though Americans don't live in the most sumptuously energy-guzzling society of all time. For at least the past two decades, North America's per-capita energy consumption has been about 4 1/2 times the world average, according to the U.S. Department of Energy...
Humanitarian aid funding provided by the US government on a per capita basis is far below that of other countries, according to Bellamy...
...meantime, foreign aid remains the country's lifeblood. Mongolia receives about $100 per capita annually, more than all but a handful of nations, partly because countries such as the U.S. and Japan like the idea of a fledgling democracy nestled between Russia and China. International aid organizations and nongovernmental organizations have delivered relief to areas hit by the dzud. They're also teaching new ways for herders to make a living?including gardening, garment making and carpentry?and are trying to make the herders think about livestock as a business. In August, the Gobi Regional Economic Growth Initiative, with funding...
...fact that Asians have more income earners and individuals within each household. Moreover, Asian Americans concentrate both in metropolitan areas and in the states of California, New York and Hawaii, where costs of living are much higher, thereby decreasing their actual purchasing power. Consequently, if we use per capita income as a socioeconomic indicator, non-Hispanic whites, on average, earn over $2,000 more than Asian Americans