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...different players. New York's high-stakes Lotto seems to be the pick of the upper and middle classes, while three-and four-digit numbers games appeal to a more downscale market. In Arizona, a state-funded study found that lottery regulars are predominantly white males with a median age of 36 and a household income of $20,000. Says Charlie Buri, who voted against Arizona's lottery but now serves as its director: "People aren't taking the bread and milk off the table to play the lottery...
...grown more alarming in the years since Moynihan's depiction. Today a majority (55%) of black children are born to unmarried, often teen-age mothers; in 1965 only 26% of non white new-borns were illegitimate. Half of all black children have no father at home, and the median income of these single-mother households is only $7,458. The incidence of divorce among black couples is twice that among whites. One out of twelve black children lives with neither parent...
Young buyers find, however, that they frequently must settle for tight accommodations. With the median cost of a new home now $79,500, up 7.7% from a year ago, an affordable starter house may turn out to be little larger than a roomy cabin. In Hudson, N.H., eager buyers have been plunking down $60,000 for two-bedroom town-house units that Builder John Stabile has packed into 1,050 sq. ft., or about half the size of a singles tennis court. On the outskirts of Southern California's San Fernando Valley, $90,000 can buy a Kaufman & Broad...
...that must change, not the black. Anyway, the problems of blacks are not psychological but harsh and external, and if anything, getting worse. There are many black Americans, of course, and it is difficult to make large generalizations, psychological or otherwise. But statistics can take the overall readings. The median income of blacks is only 55% that of whites. Black unemployment is, as usual, twice that for whites. Many black families are stable, but more than half of black babies are born to unwed mothers. The lives of American blacks are sicklier and shorter than those of whites...
...filing of a lawsuit. The researchers also tracked 1,650 civil lawsuits through federal and state courts and interviewed the more than 1,300 lawyers involved. The attorneys spent only about 30 hours on the typical case, which usually earned them well under $2,500, and they had median annual earnings of $45,000. Pretrial discovery, the early phase of civil litigation in which the parties seek information from each other, and which Burger blamed for causing needless trial delays, was minimal or nonexistent in the majority of cases studied...