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HOUSE PRICES will rise about 4% next year, says National Association of Home Builders. Survey of 600 builders shows median price of 1957 home of $15,200 v. $14,700 this year. Reasons: higher land, building costs, demand for bigger homes, difficulty in financing less expensive homes...
...poll also revealed that the median income of the business graduate was $10,600, while the lawyers' median income...
...June stood at 116.2, 3 points higher than the June 1952 level. Thus, despite the inflationary pressure of a 20% increase in average weekly earnings since 1952, the cost of living has risen 7 points less than it climbed in the four years between 1948 and 1952, while the median average income ($2,323 in 1955) has gained 75% since...
...Connecticut's homes have registered nurses on their staffs; in several states only 40% to 50% of the homes have R.N.s, while in Wyoming and Oklahoma "the home with a registered nurse is practically nonexistent." ¶ The inmates desperately need care. Only 10% are under 65, and the median age is 80. About half cannot walk, or can do so only with help; 20% are confined to bed; more than half are mentally confused, and one-third cannot control bladder and bowels. More than a third are suffering from the aftereffects of heart attacks or strokes. Yet in half...
Bullock reckons that the median income of the Negro household in Houston has risen from $2,900 in 1940 to $4,016 today. One reason for the relatively high income is that Negro families frequently have more than one wage earner; one family in three has a second paycheck...