Word: median
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...Cambridge plan would eliminate rent control by July 1 for most units, but would extend rent control through 1999 for families earning less than 80 percent of the Housing and Urban Department (HUD) median-income guidelines, and for elderly and disabled tenants...
According to the subcommittee's chairman, Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), a 1989 Social Security study found the median personal savings of retired workers was less than $10,000, excluding the value of homes and cars. "We are indeed facing a serious savings crisis," Bradley said today.Post your opinion on theSocietybulletin board...
...path of McDonald's food as it travels through the air vents in an apartment building, all of whose occupants are Black. Unlike many of the white-casted commercials in the series, this and other all-Black ads stress value as a reason to come to McDonald's. The median family income for Blacks may be lower than that for whites, but this race-based economic targeting only reinforces stereotypes...
...plan's 12 sections serve primarily to protect elderly, physically handicapped and "income eligible" tenants--those with incomes 90 percent or less than the median-income guidelines set up by the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Some of the growth in service jobs has helped narrow the pay gap between men and women.While women made 34% less than men in median weekly earnings in ! 1983, the differential closed to 25% last year. That's partly because expanding fields such as health care and education have added numerous nurses, teachers and librarians -- jobs that are still mostly held by women...