Word: medians
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...have the higher incomes and reduce the income [tax] on the lower-income and middle-income taxpayers." Quite innocently, A.P. had dropped the words "and middle-income" from Carter's statement. When Carter was asked by A.P. what he meant by "higher incomes," he loosely cited the mean or median level of income, and anything above that would be higher and anything below would be lower." Ford has repeatedly pounced on that to insist that Carter means to increase taxes on anyone making more than $14,000?even though Carter specifically had excluded "middle-income taxpayers" from such increases. Still...
Sixty-three survey respondents in the class are now consultants of one kind or another at a median salary of $24,000 a year. They represent the largest block of respondents going into a single industry...
...graduate of the Harvard Business School who reported a first-year salary of $42,000 as a member of the marketing department of a large oil firm was just one of 572 members of the Business School Class of 1976 that showed a median salary of $20,000 in response to a survey by the Office of Career Management...
...median is an increase of $1400 over last year's figure, although it may have been introduced as a result of the variations in graduates responding each year...
Economically, blacks still lag considerably behind whites, but they are catching up. In 1959 the median income of Southern black families was 46% of that of white families; in 1974 it was 56%. The totals: $6,730 for black families, $12,050 for whites.The black middle class is rapidly expanding, especially in the booming cities. Some black neighborhoods, such as Birmingham's Briarmont and Atlanta's Southwest, have all the amenities and status of upper-middle-class white residential areas...