Word: medians
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...that must change, not the black. Anyway, the problems of blacks are not psychological but harsh and external, and if anything, getting worse. There are many black Americans, of course, and it is difficult to make large generalizations, psychological or otherwise. But statistics can take the overall readings. The median income of blacks is only 55% that of whites. Black unemployment is, as usual, twice that for whites. Many black families are stable, but more than half of black babies are born to unwed mothers. The lives of American blacks are sicklier and shorter than those of whites...
...filing of a lawsuit. The researchers also tracked 1,650 civil lawsuits through federal and state courts and interviewed the more than 1,300 lawyers involved. The attorneys spent only about 30 hours on the typical case, which usually earned them well under $2,500, and they had median annual earnings of $45,000. Pretrial discovery, the early phase of civil litigation in which the parties seek information from each other, and which Burger blamed for causing needless trial delays, was minimal or nonexistent in the majority of cases studied...
...definite problem areas loom high, namely the availability of parking and affordable housing. Low-cost housing is already a problem in East Cambridge--where the median family income is $15.929, compared to $28.278 in the Harvard area...
...classic bums." The tribe of the homeless has changed in character as it has grown. Among them now are displaced families, unable to find jobs or afford housing, or both. There are more women and many more young people: in San Francisco's seven public shelters, the median age is 35. A great many are illiterate, but surveys in New York City and San Francisco found about the same proportion of college graduates as in the general population...
...With kids coming from unequal backgrounds. I don't know how fair it would be to use this rule as the only criteria," he says. Jackson adds that the 700 cutoff mark would be especially detrimental to Black student athletes since "their national median is 707," about 100 points lower than that of whites. He adds, "What makes reports interesting to me is that an issue like the NCAA rule is applicable to public policy decisions like affirmative action, teacher entrance exams, and busing...