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...past five years, the median family income in the Boston area has increased by 23 percent. The cost of a one-bedroom apartment in Cambridge has gone up by more than 50 percent. And--mirroring the national trend--voters have turned out in consistently lower numbers for local elections...
...ROUND 2: Al comes alive! Gore finally showing some energy and a decent median between snoozing and being a snot. His effort to go to specifics will, I think, play pretty well...
...example, the center will focus through one project on youth suicide attempts. The study will examine the correlation between socioeconomic factors--such as poverty, unemployment, median income and the community's ethnic composition--and suicide rates...
...Gore promises to spend more on aid to college students and their parents: $41 billion over 10 years, vs. $11 billion over five years for Bush. No surprise there. But here's the zinger: it is the Democrat who holds out the bigger goody bag for families above the median income, while the Republican would offer more financial aid to the poor. Says Terry Hartle, vice president of the American Council on Education: "It's like a play where nobody is playing his assigned part...
Following historic trends, the highest poverty rate and lowest median income were those of black Americans, followed closely in both categories by Latinos. Asian-Americans earned significantly better than the average median income, while whites hugged the national line...