Word: medians
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...Median raise that full-time female workers received last year...
...well. In 1950 the rate was 1.5%, and it applied to only the first $3,000 of earnings. No one paid more than $45 in Social Security tax. Even by 1970, after the rate had gone up to 4.2%, taxable earnings were $7,800, some $2,000 below the median family income. By 1980 the rate had climbed to 5.08%, and it was levied on the first $25,900 of income, well above the median family income of $21,023. Over the past 25 years, Social Security and Medicare taxes paid by a median-income family have spiraled 333%, from...
...more of their own money.” Using the word “average” to describe a mean tax decrease is deceiving. If the richest taxpayers get tremendous tax breaks, this increases the mean value, making the benefits to poor Americans look larger. The median tax decrease would better reflect the benefit to the “average American,” and would surely be significantly lower...
...million-unit annual rate in December, the highest since 1978), new home sales (up 3.5 percent to an annualized 1.08 million, a new record) and existing home sales (up 5 percent to 5.56 million for 2002, another new record). And according to the National Association of Realtors, the national median existing-home price ended the year at $164,000, up 7.1 percent from 2001. That's the strongest annual increase since 1980; clearly, homes are being built, sold and resold at a pace not seen in decades...
...including the 33-year-old driver of the tractor-trailer which broke through the concrete barrier in the median strip and ran into the path of traffic, has been charged...