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...Stone, he has followed his baby-boomer generation into its latest passion. Once a dry periodical for professional architects and gardeners who speak fluent Latin, Garden Design was redesigned and reintroduced last April with a price of $5 an issue and a circulation of 50,000: average age, 43; median income, $71,000. Like other high-end offerings, its glossy editions feature gorgeous photography, closeups of sweaty petals and buxom peonies, landscapes that cry to be painted. Here the advertisers are more likely to be selling single-malt Scotch and leather goods than power mowers. For the more modest...
...although thesocial forcesthat contribute to the number of fatherless families are complex,economic factorshave played a large role. "People have to look at the decline of real wages and the very high unemployment rate among young black and hispanic men." The study notes that from 1972 to 1994 the median income of all men 25 to 34 fell by an inflation-adjusted 26 percent...
...once negligible, have become a severe burden, and one of the most regressive taxes that government collects. An estimated two-thirds of all workers, especially younger ones and the working poor, pay more Social Security tax than federal income tax. In 1991 a family of four earning half the median U.S. income--$43,000 that year-paid 4.8% of its meager earnings in income tax, but 12.4% to Social Security. Those figures, it is true, include the half share of Social Security taxes supposedly paid by employers--and so they should, say economists; in reality the worker pays the whole...
...multicultural school that's going to be placed in an area that can definitely benefit from a model school. There are a large number of single parents and below-median income level families," said Ogletree...
...estimates its total readership, including pass-along and library copies, at 19 million. Consumers Union, the magazine's parent organization, operates on an annual budget of $133 million, most of which is raised through subscriptions and book sales. And in 1990, aware that its devoted audience was getting older (median age: 42), CR revitalized another magazine devoted to young people into Zillions: Consumer Reports for Kids, which comes out six times a year and reaches 280,000 home subscribers plus numerous school programs. Its topics ("Which Ice Cream?" and "Fast Food: What's Good?") are keyed to young consumers...