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...situation that has driven Americans to new extremes. Some 7% of people polled by the Kaiser Family Foundation in April reported that one member of their household got married to a health-insured person within the past year just to get a piece of the benefits. More commonly, however, families went without medical attention. Twenty-nine percent of people said they'd put off necessary care, 24% had delayed a medical test or treatment and 23% said a prescription had gone unfilled. But none of this is surprising when you consider that one in three people surveyed also said they...
...world's second largest economy is now crying over spilled milk - and its delicious by-product, butter. Japan, insulated from rice shortages that plague other parts of Asia, is experiencing an unprecedented shortage of the household staple - and discovering that it is not as immune from the growing global food crisis as it wants...
...around 12. Statistics for this academic year are not yet available from all schools. The Pell Grant program provided up to $4,310 of need-based financial assistance to low-income students for the 2007-2008 academic year. The average recipient’s annual household income is under $20,000. Fitzsimmons attributed Harvard’s increasing socioeconomic diversity to aggressive recruitment and outreach to lower-income students. But Fitzsimmons said that it has not been easy convincing prospective applicants that Harvard is affordable even for the very poor. “We’re not under...
...addition to scores that gauge political candidates, cars, and household appliances, environmental friendliness is now also a factor considered in the 2009 edition of the Princeton Review’s 368 Best Colleges book to be released this summer. The April 22 announcement comes after 63 percent of the 10,300 respondents to the Princeton Review’s annual “College Hopes & Worries Survey” said that “they would value having information about a college’s commitment to the environment and that it may impact their decision to apply...
Median annual household income, by county, in thousands...