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...quarter-century are the people who didn't go beyond high school, particularly the men. They are the only group that has less money to spend now than it did in 1970--more than $6,000 dollars less in inflation-adjusted annual income. Back in 1970, a high-school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle-income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street and a dingy apartment in a low-rent building...
...quarter-century are the people who didn't go beyond high school, particularly the men. They are the only group that has less money to spend now than it did in 1970--more than $6,000 dollars less in inflation-adjusted annual income. Back in 1970, a high-school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle-income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street and a dingy apartment in a low-rent building...
...speak to a junior who was upset about it," Callender said. "She wanted to know if the change would appear on her diploma or change her mail [address...
...poll data released today. More than half the voters in the $30,000 to $50,000 income bracket sided with the GOP this year, up sharply from 43 percent in the 1990 midterm elections. Another GOP voter marker: education: Exit polls show that only those without a high school diploma and those with postgraduate degrees were firmly Democratic. The vast middle ground of voters with high school or college degrees voted Republican. Baby boomers, a majority of whom have eschewed the GOP in the past, also shifted loyalties. More than half those age 30 to 44 voted Republican on Tuesday...
...cannot get a Radcliffe diploma...and women get a diploma which says Harvard on it," Campbell said last week. "The [new] name more accurately reflects the membership...