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There is much evidence, in fact, that the U.S. is developing something of a two-tiered society. While corporate profits and executive salaries are rising rapidly, real wages (that is, discounted for inflation) are not growing at all. Indeed, the government has reported that last year real median household income in the U.S. fell by $312, while a million more people slipped into poverty; those officially defined as poor were 15.1% of the U.S. population vs. 14.8% in 1992. Those were astonishing developments for the fourth year of a business recovery that is steadily gaining strength...
...Chicago team avoided this trap. Working with the school's National Opinion Research Center (NORC), the team began by using computers to select addresses at random. Then they chose which member of the household to interview, again at random. Next they rigorously trained a cadre of 220 interviewers on the delicate art of conducting a frank discussion of sex. "Our feeling was that you could get people to talk about anything if you approach them right," says Edward Laumann, a sociologist at the University of Chicago...
...President has few opportunities to stimulate the economy. Creating export-related jobs, which pay 17% more than the average U.S. job, is one way to accomplish this, and the President was reminded last week of how urgently he needs to do it. The Census Bureau reported that median household income fell last year $312, or 1%, while the number of Americans living in poverty -- below $14,763 a year for a family of four -- grew 1.3 million and now accounts for 15% of the population. This news came as a surprise to those economists who counted about 2 million...
...Gray Sexton successful in overcoming all of these obstacles when her mother seemed so ill-equipped to cope? The author allowed herself to confront, accept and forgive the sins of her past. The abuse. The violent household. The instability. The codependence. Through therapy, through semi-autobiographical novels (Gray Sexton has authored four) and through dealing with her mother's work as her executor, she has been able to move forward. These memoirs are the final leg in Gray Sexton's long emotional journey. Street is an indulgence she must allow herself. Anne Sexton had her poetry and her therapy...
...flown planes over four states, towing banners that read: KILLER CRAIG PRICE; FREE OCT. 11, 1994, MOVING TO YOUR CITY? BEWARE. They've gathered signatures demanding that Price be kept in prison. And they are planning a national ad campaign that Collins hopes will make Price's name a household word...