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...BUYING MORTGAGES? The median income for first-time home buyers in the U.S. is $57,200 ? Married couples make up 61% of home buyers, compared with 70% in 1995 ? Whites account for 77% of first-time buyers, African Americans for 10% ? Single women make up 21% of home buyers; 9% are single men. ? Nearly a quarter of home buyers say they found their homes on the Internet, up from 15% a year...
...council also discussed improving the median strip on Mass. Ave. north of Harvard Square. Kelley described the median, a plain concrete strip about four miles long between Harvard Square and Arlington, as “about as ugly as one can get” and inconvenient to people crossing...
Sullivan suggested that plants, used in some median strips in Chicago, could provide an attractive, yet affordable partial solution...
...spending. This legislation deals a further blow to a nation that is struggling to live up to its reputation as the land of opportunity. At the nation’s top 146 colleges, only 3 percent of freshmen come from the poorest quarter of the population. At Harvard, the median family income of students is $150,000 and that’s with the benefit of a Harvard Financial Aid Inititiative, which eliminates the parental contribution to college costs for families earning under $40,000 a year. Whatever metrics are used, the story is the same: the odds are stacked...
...recruit data are from 1999 and 2003, which I agree is not exactly current. It was the most current data we could get from the Pentagon when the study was initiated. But this would be an odd complaint for Simon to make, since he only cites median income data on the 1999 cohort, and neglects to mention that by 2003 average real family incomes of recruits had risen by $1,700, above the national median rather than below. The stunning finding in my mind is not the canard that soldiers are poor, which Simon rightly skewers, but that the military...