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...Median household income: $45,367 ($13,103 above U.S. median...
Alaska has the highest median household income in the U.S. and a land area that would stretch from Florida to California and north to Lake Superior. Its Congressmen, long stymied by a Democratic majority on the Hill, finally got their chance when the G.O.P. took control in 1994. They pushed through bills allowing exploration for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge and lifting a ban on exporting state oil. Federal investment is vital here, but with the government controlling 60% of the state's land, it has bred resentment as well. Washington is a long way from the "Last...
...Median household income: $23,597 ($8,667 below U.S. median...
...gripping any part of it rather than by confining it whole, as a cage does. Most of the traps that would be banned are steel-jaw and rubber-jaw leghold traps, both of which crush the limbs of animals they catch. Leghold traps pose a serious danger to household pets as well as the animals trappers mean to catch. "For every target animal, there are two to three untargeted animals that are trapped," says Aaron Medlock, legislative policy analyst for the Humane Society...
...Federal Reserve's decision to hold the line on interest rates reassured investors in September, bringing the current rise toward 6,000. Meanwhile, investment fever continues to rise as fast as the market. According to the Federal Reserve, last year for the first time in decades the value of household stockholdings outweighed home equity. More than one adult in three now owns stock directly, through a mutual fund or through a savings plan such as a 401(k). And the trend is continuing: through September, Americans put more than $177 million into stock mutual funds, more than twice last year...