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...stark contrast with Choi's skewed presentation, lists the Chinese poverty rate as 11.5 percent, the Korean poverty rate as 12.5 percent, with the Japanese poverty rate only at a low 4.2 percent. Severely under-represented Asians such as Laotians experience a 67.2 percent poverty rate. Furthermore, the median income of, for example, a Southeast Asian (Vietnamese) family lies 35 percent below the national average...
Turk also said most tenants are actually below the state median income and that in addition to providing affordable housing, rent control has "stabilized the neighborhoods" and prevented complete gentrification...
ALTMAN: I just don't agree with your numbers. The Clinton plan essentially says that if your family has $200,000 or more of adjusted gross income, you'll pay more tax. If you don't, you won't pay more tax. The average family of four at median income will experience...
...gets painful after a while, like watching people who can no longer control their actions: the drunk bellying up to the bar for one last drink to keep the other 10 company. We could just as well put people to work weeding the median strips on the interstates or digging holes and filling them back up, but we make weapons, so when we want to employ people, we make more weapons; any other form of publicly sponsored employment is derided as "leaf raking" and possibly socialism...
...investment ballooned, its 4% cumulative annual growth was the Continent's highest and, with the help of European Community subsidies, it built $30 billion worth of highways and other public works. No longer did Spaniards have to emigrate north for jobs: their income rose to 79% of the E.C. median. Culturally, Spain became fashionable: the campy fantasies of filmmaker Pedro Almodovar; the sunswept abstractions of painter Miguel Barcelo; the postmodern extravaganzas of architect Ricardo Bofill; the prankish sexiness of fashion designer Sybilla. Madrid promoted itself as the eye of a creative tornado known as la movida, whirling all night long...