Word: median
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...multicultural school that's going to be placed in an area that can definitely benefit from a model school. There are a large number of single parents and below-median income level families," said Ogletree...
...estimates its total readership, including pass-along and library copies, at 19 million. Consumers Union, the magazine's parent organization, operates on an annual budget of $133 million, most of which is raised through subscriptions and book sales. And in 1990, aware that its devoted audience was getting older (median age: 42), CR revitalized another magazine devoted to young people into Zillions: Consumer Reports for Kids, which comes out six times a year and reaches 280,000 home subscribers plus numerous school programs. Its topics ("Which Ice Cream?" and "Fast Food: What's Good?") are keyed to young consumers...
Martin Halpin, for instance, a resident of Irvington, New York, "started feeling crushed" by his tax bills a few years ago. The median teacher salary in his district was $67,680 last year, compared to $43,014 in New York City and an average salary of about $35,000 across the country. Because of his approximately $7,500 tax bill, he says, he has had to postpone replacing the plumbing in the bathrooms of his "modest, split-level home...
...wage jobs and an increasingly inequitable distribution of wealth that account for the pervasiveness, persistence and growth of poverty. "For the first time," says Northwestern University's Rebecca Blank, one of the nation's leading poverty economists, "decreases in poverty no longer accompany economic growth. This is because the median family income, which registered almost no growth in the 1970s and 1980s, is now actually declining. The welfare rolls are not increasing because of generous benefits or because single mothers are working less. They're working more," while the inflation- adjusted value of the main antipoverty programs, food stamps...
Under the act--which the three communities cannot alter or reject--tenants earning less than 60 percent of the median-income guidelines for metropolitan Boston, as set up by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), can keep rent control for up to two years. Also protected are elderly and disabled tenants who make less than 80 percent of the HUD guidelines...