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...path of McDonald's food as it travels through the air vents in an apartment building, all of whose occupants are Black. Unlike many of the white-casted commercials in the series, this and other all-Black ads stress value as a reason to come to McDonald's. The median family income for Blacks may be lower than that for whites, but this race-based economic targeting only reinforces stereotypes...
...plan's 12 sections serve primarily to protect elderly, physically handicapped and "income eligible" tenants--those with incomes 90 percent or less than the median-income guidelines set up by the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Some of the growth in service jobs has helped narrow the pay gap between men and women.While women made 34% less than men in median weekly earnings in ! 1983, the differential closed to 25% last year. That's partly because expanding fields such as health care and education have added numerous nurses, teachers and librarians -- jobs that are still mostly held by women...
There is much evidence, in fact, that the U.S. is developing something of a two-tiered society. While corporate profits and executive salaries are rising rapidly, real wages (that is, discounted for inflation) are not growing at all. Indeed, the government has reported that last year real median household income in the U.S. fell by $312, while a million more people slipped into poverty; those officially defined as poor were 15.1% of the U.S. population vs. 14.8% in 1992. Those were astonishing developments for the fourth year of a business recovery that is steadily gaining strength...
...intense drive for productivity is raising the rewards for training and education higher than ever. Between 1979 and 1989, calculates labor economist Freedman, median real income for year-round, full-time workers age 25 or more did not change significantly, but within that enormous group there were some dramatic shifts. College-educated women increased their earnings 16%, college- educated men slightly. Earnings of women with a high school education or less held about even. The big losers were men who never got past high school. Their inflation-adjusted earnings fell...