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LAREDO, TEXAS--This city of 65,000 which languishes on the banks of the Grande is, by federal statistics, the nation's poorest metropolitan area. Unemployment hovers around ten per cent, the median annual family income is less than $3,000 and, in some neighborhoods, is below $1,500. About a fifth of the city has new sewer service and more than half of the streets are unpaved. As many as 8,000 of Laredo's people migrate annually to do farm work. Illiteracy plagues one-sixth of the populace...
...this year), they must part with something near and dear to each of them-money. This year, according to the Tax Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit study group, the average American family will fork over $3,300 to federal, state and city tax collectors. That is $269 more than the median family in come in 1947. Overall, the foundation predicts, U.S. individuals and companies will hand out $203 billion, better than double the amount of fiscal...
...education committee of the NAACP, read a report based on Boston School Department records which showed that Negro schools were overcrowded, that cost per pupil in Negro schools was below the citywide average, and that reading test scores of Negro pupils were below the already low Boston median. The NAACP also requested a hearing with the School Committee which was granted and held on June 11, 1963. The meeting consisted of talks about the inadequacy of facilities for Negro children and ended with the promise of another meeting...
Political Muscle. Today, only a handful of public universities survive without tuition: California, C.U.N.Y., Connecticut, Kentucky and Idaho. The median tuition charged state residents at the 97 schools of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Col leges reached $333 in 1967, compared with $312 last year and less than $200 ten years ago. In addition, most state schools charge a variety of fees (for instance, for athletics and lab courses), which can run as high as $240 a year at California...
...Every year, also, there is a widening gap between tuition charges for state residents and those who cross the borders. In effect, outsiders are helping to subsidize local students. Out-of-state tuition at the state schools rose 19.9% in 1965, climbed another 6.5% last year, has reached a median of $782. The number of these schools charging nonresidents more than $900 a year has risen from nine to 33 in the past two years. Vermont, which levies outsiders $1,500, can no longer keep its desired fifty-fifty split between in-state and out-state students...