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...Family Foundation released the results of a survey of 1,065 parents with children ages 6 months to 6 years. The stunning finding is that 43% of the kids age 2 and younger watched TV on a typical day and that 26% had a TV in their room. The median amount of time spent watching: two hours...
...also said that the University was right to put such a premium on the value of its money managers, noting that if the endowment had produced median returns over the last 10 years, the University would have $9.6 billion less...
...Democratic presidential hopefuls have now started to include financial incentives for post-secondary education in their platforms. Their proposals seem timely given the ever-rising costs of a higher education—some private school tuitions now exceed $40,000, just a few thousand dollars shy of the median salary for an American worker. If these costs don’t dissuade many students from attending post-secondary schools, they often burden students and their families with immeasurable debt. Study after study affirms the financial and occupational benefits of a bachelor’s degree—those with college...
...what has happened during the two decades since widespread expansion of the Washington Consensus? In 1980, the richest 10 percent of nations had 77 times higher median income than the poorest 10 percent; by 1999, it had grown to 122 times. Prior to the victory of the Washington Consensus, Latin America and the Caribbean experienced a 75 percent growth in per capita GDP from 1960 to 1980 but since then has stagnated with total growth of 7 percent. Sub-Saharan Africa actually tumbled 15 percent during this period after experiencing a 34 percent growth in the previous two decades?...
With respect to grant money used to meet the on-campus needs of poor students, Harvard and others like it are receiving anywhere from five to 20 times the median amount, according to The Times...