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...level, no. One study showed a .4% increase in the number of impoverished Americans in 2001 over the year before, the first rise since 1993. The second recorded a 2.2% decrease in the median U.S. income, to $42,228. Hardly surprising. When there's a recession, people lose jobs, and incomes fall. But behind the numbers were some peculiarities that show how the country has changed--and how it hasn't. The reports show an increase in the number of non-Hispanic whites, Southerners and suburbanites living below the poverty line, while the number of poor African Americans has held...
...Harvard had earned median returns over the past ten years (which is what one would expect from a large, diversified fund), Harvard would have $8 billion less than it actually has now,” he wrote...
Nevada has been especially hard hit because it's one of the states with the sharpest rise in malpractice costs. But those costs are climbing nationwide. According to one study, from 1999 to 2000 the median plaintiff's jury award in medical-malpractice cases increased 43%, from $700,000 to $1 million. Last year the MIIX Group, an insurer in 24 states, saw 26 claim payments of more than $1 million. This year it has faced an average of one new $1 million-plus claim every week...
...Percentage the median pay for CEOs at 350 of the largest U.S companies rose...
...argument difficult to accept. That's because in the past few years the hottest markets have been rebounding from declines in the early 1990s. Measuring from trough to peak will always show unsustainable growth. A better snapshot comes from measuring from peak to peak. Take San Francisco again. The median home price has surged to $482,000 as of the first quarter of this year, from $254,000 in 1995. That's an 11.3% average annual return, double the historical national average. Yet the median Bay-area price in 1989 was $261,000. A typical buyer at that time...