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...daily attendance is $532. To reduce the ratio to 15 to 1, in rough but representative terms, would require another $300 per pupil. This would represent an increase in expenditure of $1020 per year for a family with three children, or, as an example, 28.3 per cent of the median income of nonwhite families in the nation...
...year poverty line. This class contains 60% of all the nation's Negro youths, the very people who are in the vanguard of desire and disorder. While the income of the middle-class Negro rises, that of this great mass of Negroes is actually declining. During the 1960s, median family income for Negroes has dropped from $3,897 to $3,803 in Los Angeles' Watts, from $4,346 to $3,729 in Cleveland's Hough district...
...average TIME subscriber in the U.S., says the study, has a median age of 39.3 years and an average household income of $14,904. Mr. Average Subscriber has a wife and, in true statistical fashion, 1.5 children. He owns his own home, worth an average of $27,235, where Mrs. Subscriber works with a daz zling array of electrical gadgets: 76% of the families studied have automatic washing machines, 30% have electric carving knives, 38% automatic garbage disposals. Half of TIME'S families have more than one car sitting in the garage; 67% of them were bought...
...TABLE 3 Median Education of Occupation Groups, 1965 and 1985 Estimated White 1965 Nonwhite 1985 Total Occupation Group (yrs.) (yrs.) (yrs.) White-collar workers Professional & technical workers 16.3 16.5 16.3 Managers, officials & proprietors 12.6 11.8 12.6 Clerical 12.5 12.6 12.5 Sales 12.5 12.3 12.5 Blue-collar workers Craftsmen & foremen 11.8 10.4 12.5 Operatives 10.7 10.2 12.0 Laborers, excluding farm & mine 9.9 8.6 11.0 Service workers Private household 8.9 8.9 10.0 Other 11.6 10.4 12.0 Farm workers Farmers & farm managers 8.9 5.9 8.8 Laborers & foremen...
...Negroes should be high school graduates by 1985; 14.7 percent should be college graduates. (see Table 4). To equip Negroes for full economic equality, 74.9 percent should be high school graduates, 16.7 percent college graduates. To be sure, these figures assume that every Negro must have the median education for his job. Some will be able to hold the better jobs without the appropriate diploma. But the education of whites is increasing rapidly as well, and will not fall far short of the standards underlying the above figures so the competition will be keen...