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...nurses, more than any other occupation, according to the BLS. Why? With 77 million baby boomers approaching retirement age and preventive health care growing, nurses are in demand. Technology has shortened hospital stays for many patients, but the ones left behind are the sickest and require even more attention. Median annual earnings for nurses are $48,090, and 10% of registered nurses make more than $69,670. The hours are odd, though, with lots of tempting overtime opportunities. "I've wanted to smack--figuratively smack--some other nurses," says Kay Ball, 56, a longtime surgical nurse from Lewis Center, Ohio...
...notice he starts fidgeting. That body language alone tells me something. He doesn't want to repeat this for his own kids." With baby boomers funding retirements and more people reluctant to go it alone like in the go-go '90s, the College for Financial Planning reports that median annual earnings for certified planners have grown 28%, to $153,500, over the past three years...
...dealt with their comrades and moved on." The existence of the video was kept from Ahmelman's family to spare them further distress, Crane explains. "Sometimes decisions are correct, sometimes incorrect," he says of what happened that day. "I've heard somebody suggest they should have immediately crossed the median strip and headed back to the (fortified) Green Zone. A personal security detail that did that got blown up four days previous to the incident...
Wilson, says the Times, earns $73,000 a year and owns a house worth $450,000. The median income in America when the story was written was a little over $41,000. Less than a quarter of Americans earned more than $60,000. The Times goes to great lengths to show that Wilson has what they consider middle class traits—he eats fatty foods, his parents were poor, he didn’t finish college—but the fact remains that Wilson has a ton more money than most Americans...
...according to the National Association of Realtors they made up almost a quarter of home purchases last year. It's one reason why U.S. home prices have lept 50% since the 1990s (condo prices have risen 57%) and why fewer than an estimated fifth of Californians can afford a median-priced home in their state. Developers complain that when investors snatch up units pre-construction and then sell them off before the sodded grass is even put down, it essentially means the developer ends up competing with the flippers for sales within his own development. At the same time, families...