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...significant economic impact on inner-city residents struggling financially, says Tricia Rose, a professor at Brown University's Department of Africana Studies and the author of the forthcoming book The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop - And Why It Matters. The average median household income in Riviera Beach is about $10,000 lower than that in the rest of the country, and the city's per capita violent-crime rate is higher than the city of Miami's, according to 2007 FBI figures released this month...
...that it had managed a 3.2 percent return over the past year. Its endowment now totals $10.1 billion. The largest higher educational endowment to announce a loss so far, the University of Pennsylvania, dropped 3.9 percent on the year. But the Philadelphia school still bested the negative 4.4 percent median return of 165 peer institutions, as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service. While these returns pale in comparison to the consistent double-digit returns posted by the wealthiest university endowments over the past few years, they remain robust in light of the worst financial downturn in decades?...
...richest city in the world.” But measured by personal net earnings, New York did not even make the global top ten last year. Did Mr. Serrano mean to make a more modest U.S.-limited comparison, perhaps? A 2005 Forbes rating by the highest median household income reveals that neither New York nor Los Angeles are among the ten richest cities, even in the United States...
...index, a standard baseline for stock-market performance, drop more than 13 percent over the same period. The 8.6 percent gain puts Harvard comfortably in the top 5 percent of peer investment groups as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service and far outpaces the group’s median return of -4.4 percent over the year. Financial markets have declined dramatically in the past 12 months as the effects of high rates of home loan defaults tore through the economy, wiping out billions in capital. Among the first casualties of the distress on Wall Street was Sowood Capital Management...
...Median annual U.S. household income in 2007. The number has risen for three straight years...