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...interlocks are not a cost-free panacea. Although legislators typically spend other people’s money with wild abandon, even the most starry-eyed politician might balk at mandating the use of these locks, which cost rougly $1,000 per year. This increase, over two percent of the median American’s annual income, would significantly harm the quality of millions of Americans’ lives, imposing costs on adults who never drink...
...numbers are startling. A study by the Center for Equal Opportunity found that Asian-American applicants to selective colleges have significantly higher test scores than applicants of other races. For example, in 2005, the median test score for Asian students offered admission to the University of Michigan was 50 points higher than the median score for white students, 140 points higher than Hispanic students, and 240 points higher than black students. (The SAT used a 1600-point scale at the time...
Today Miami is the least affordable metropolitan area in the U.S. It has one of the highest median house prices ($372,000) and the nation's wealthiest community (Fisher Island, where luminaries like Oprah Winfrey have had homes). But a heavy reliance on the tourism industry and its attendant low-wage service jobs has given Miami one of America's lowest household median incomes ($33,000) and the country's highest proportion of renters and homeowners who spend 30% or more of their pay on housing...
...Nashville, Tenn.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; and New York City all admitted at least 15 entrants over the past year and fielded hundreds of inquiries. One convent is hurriedly raising funds for a new building to house the inflow, and at another a rush of new blood has lowered the median age of its 225 sisters to 36. Catholic centers at universities, including Illinois and Texas A&M, report growing numbers of women entering discernment, or the official period of considering a vocation. Career women seeking more meaning in their lives and empty-nest moms are also finding their...
...history,” VanderClock said. Weston proposes to finance the purchase by issuing bonds, selling 10 parcels of the land for development, and recovering the remainder in increased property taxes. VanderClock explained that the taxes should impose a mininimal burden on residents of the town, whose median household income of $153,918 was the highest in the state, according to the 2000 census. “The median real estate tax increase will only be $57 a year on average over the next 20 years,” she said. Amanda Jordan-Smith, 42, who has lived in Weston...