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...annually throughout the 1970s, are also getting more affordable. Prices have been more or less flat since the spring of 1981 and have declined rather strikingly when inflation is taken into account. For example, since 1980 the Consumer Price Index has risen by nearly 28%, while the median price of new homes has grown by only 13%, to $70,700. (Note to nostalgia buffs: ten years ago the median home price was $27,600.) Last week, however, the Government provided evidence that housing costs may be heading up again. The Labor Department reported that the October CPI rose...
...last week, a strange thing happened. The nation's median scores rose...
...SATs provide another example. A few years ago the test's sponsors, hoping against hope, ran a statistical study to determine if some "drift" in the SAT score scale might account for the steadily declining median national scores. They found a drift, all right--but it went in the wrong direction. The upward drift indicated the score decline was even more severe than it looked...
...practical. The wife economy is as obsolete as the slave economy." At the very least, Hardwick's "wife economy" has mutated?out of the kitchen, into the office, onto the assembly line?even as the wages paid for the new-woman's work range significantly below the male median...
...changes in the concentration of employment have not meant changes in income. "The median income is lower than other parts of the city with the exception of Cambridgeport," says LaRosa adding that a lot of people are in the unskilled labor force...