Word: medians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virtuous cycle" that will keep spinning, if a bit more slowly. The U.S., she notes, has created a stunning 15.5 million jobs since the end of 1993, even after subtracting job losses due to corporate downsizing. And two-thirds of these jobs pay more than the median wage for all U.S. jobs. By no coincidence, average U.S. real income has also risen in the past two years, after a long period during which wages rose less than prices. Result: consumers are willing to spend heavily, which creates still more jobs and higher incomes...
Sudholz describes today's Square shoppers--students included--as "a very international crowd, very affluent, very well-traveled, fairly well-educated, and the median income is a little higher than the national...
...Median family income should rise faster than tuition to enable families to afford the tuition increases, according to Knowles...
...corporation evaluates the numbers in the context of the inflation rate and the median family income...
...Marinello, a mortgage broker for Bay Counties Financial, says 80% of the mortgages he originates are jumbos--and no, it's not his specialty. The San Francisco area is unusually pricey. But jumbo creep is a broad issue. The breakpoint adjusts annually to match the rise in the national median home price, 5% last year. Still, in places where home prices are escalating faster than that, more buyers will be pushed into jumbos...