Word: medians
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SLAUGHTER: Much of the discussion is breathlessly waiting for next month's unemployment report and seeing how many manufacturing jobs there are in Ohio and Florida. That is nowhere near sufficient to grapple with the sort of issues we've talked about. The median person in the U.S. labor force today has a high school diploma and about one year of post-high school education. That person is going to have a job, but how productive and how highly compensated is that job going to be? Maybe we could have tax cuts for less skilled Americans...
...were having a crap time getting this together,” Brown said. Of the 3,000 students they identified as living in zip codes with a median income of $60,000 or lower, he said the recruiters only reached 1,000 students. And of those, he said only 87 replied that they would qualify for the benefits of the new financial aid initiative...
...place you made that Xerox. You came to college from your hometown, met someone, married, and then replicated the home you’d come from—perhaps a little blurrily. John Updike ’54 married in his senior year here. In 1960, the median age of women at marriage was about 20; for men, it was about...
...though, we marry later—according to the Census Bureau, at last count, the median age at marriage was 25 for women and almost 27 for men. We do not replicate our families so quickly, but neither do we return, most of us, to the homes we’ve left...
...regardless of how the University chooses to spend its gains this year, Harvard’s in-house management team deserves thanks for outperforming the median university return by over seventeen percent. No increase in endowment payouts would be possible without their expert management...