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Black family median income is half that of whites...
...median combined SAT scores of students accepted to Harvard is 1400, and most scores fall between 1000 and 1600 on the 1600-point scale, Evans said...
According to the report, real median family income rose by 3.3%, the greatest increase since 1972. Poverty rates for blacks, women and the elderly also declined. Despite the gains, some economists suggested that the benefits of the economic recovery were not evenly shared. Claimed Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which has been highly critical of the President's policies: "The new Census data show that the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. is now wider than at any time since Census began collecting income-distribution data in 1947." Nor was Greenstein sanguine...
...median age of the population reached 30.9, the oldest ever, and is expected to exceed 36 by the year 2000. People who fox-trotted to Tommy Dorsey now outnumber those who hip-hop to Cyndi Lauper; for the first time in history, there are more Americans over 65 than there are teenagers. Notes Karl Zinsmeister, an economic demographer at the American Enterprise Institute: "By the late 1980s, one-half of our households will be headed by baby boomers. One-fourth of our population will be elderly. These two groups will define our society for a very long time...
Moreover, American Hispanics are a predominantly young (median age: 23) and highly fertile population. Yankelovich found that 54% of all Hispanic households consist of four or more people, vs. only 28% of all U.S. families. They keep coming too in such numbers that even if all illegal immigration could be stopped, the Hispanic population would still grow. Some 42% of legal immigrants are Hispanic, and they follow the classic pattern of sending for spouses, children and parents once the first family member has established a home...