Word: median
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...rich already pay more. The Joint Committee on Taxation, which is controlled by Republicans in Congress, says the best-paid 1% of Americans, who declare more than $219,770 in annual income, fork over 27% of it to the irs, in contrast to 5% paid by Americans earning the median income of $32,364. Forbes says he knows these numbers. But rather than correct his supporters, he nods and flashes that endearing smile...
...Civil War through 1973 total national output had grown an average of 3.5% a year, and output per worker rose about 2% annually. Ever since, output growth has averaged 2% a year and productivity increases only 1%. By no coincidence, real (that is, inflation-adjusted) income for the median worker, which had doubled in the early postwar years, has been declining persistently since...
...held up better than men's. They now average 70% of male earnings, vs. 60% in 1970. The poverty rate finally went down by half a percentage point in 1994, to 14.5% of the population, the first decline since before the 1990-91 recession. But real wages of the median worker have fallen 4.6% since 1979--and more than half that drop, or 2.5%, has come after Clinton's Inauguration...
THIS IS A STORY ABOUT CAROL AND PAUL MEDIAN, she 32 and he 34, married for one year and living just south of Bloomington, Indiana. They are as average as can be. Last year Paul earned $28,449, and Carol made $23,479, precisely the midpoint paychecks for men and women their age. It also happens that their part of Indiana is the population center of the U.S. Since no real-life couple is truly typical, however, I have created the fictional Medians, going by Census figures, to give a sense of the exact middle of American life. In ways...
Like raccoons, wild turkeys are not really a wilderness animal. They are an edge-of-civilization critter. Deep snow and deep forest defeat them. They gobble insects in the warm months, occasionally in the median strips of rural interstate highways. But they get through winters, or don't, foraging for barberries, rose hips, wild apples, sumac, juniper, sedges and fern. What they really like is corn wastage at winter-bound dairy farms and sunflower seeds policed from beneath suburban bird feeders...