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...spending. This legislation deals a further blow to a nation that is struggling to live up to its reputation as the land of opportunity. At the nation’s top 146 colleges, only 3 percent of freshmen come from the poorest quarter of the population. At Harvard, the median family income of students is $150,000 and that’s with the benefit of a Harvard Financial Aid Inititiative, which eliminates the parental contribution to college costs for families earning under $40,000 a year. Whatever metrics are used, the story is the same: the odds are stacked...
...portfolio, and the only selling he?s doing is to prevent housing from swamping his other holdings as prices shoot higher. This is remarkable in light of indisputable evidence that the housing boom is at last slowing. Existing home sales plunged 5.7% in December and the median home price edged 1.9% lower, the government recently reported...
...recruit data are from 1999 and 2003, which I agree is not exactly current. It was the most current data we could get from the Pentagon when the study was initiated. But this would be an odd complaint for Simon to make, since he only cites median income data on the 1999 cohort, and neglects to mention that by 2003 average real family incomes of recruits had risen by $1,700, above the national median rather than below. The stunning finding in my mind is not the canard that soldiers are poor, which Simon rightly skewers, but that the military...
According to the Harvard College Financial Aid Office website, approximately 49 percent of Harvard students graduate with some loan debt. The median debt for the Class of 2005 was $6,400, according to the website...
...pesos) Median hourly wage in Mexico...