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...definitely qualify as "inner city." We are hampered by a lack of Black alumni, especially with athletic backgrounds, on the recruiting teams. We're further hampered, however, by the tradition of top scholar-athletes in a given Black community heading to schools like U.S.C. In short, our recruiting success ratio for the athletes in such schools has never been high--but not for lack of alumni effort. Jay Murley '57 Laguna Beach, Calif...
...century will be held down by the low birth rates of the Depression and World War II years. Meanwhile, members of the 1946-64 baby-boom generation will be hard at work, presumably earning rising incomes and paying swelling Social Security taxes, even without a further increase. The ratio of workers paying into the system to people drawing benefits, after falling from 16.5 to 1 in 1950 to 3.2 to 1 now, will at last stabilize at about the current level. Says Alicia Munnell, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a leading Social Security authority...
...demographic disaster for Social Security, beginning around the year 2010. Then the baby boomers will start to retire, in numbers greater than U.S. society has ever had to cope with. Meanwhile, the working population will have been thinned by the low birth rates of the past 15 years. The ratio of Social Security taxpayers to beneficiaries, after holding at about 3 to 1 into the early 21st century, could drop to as low as 2 to 1 by 2030. According to some projections, the Social Security taxes that those two workers and their employers would have to pay to support...
...private school students are in parochial schools. They also contend that the legislation would damage the public school system by encouraging parents to put their children in private schools; an estimated 5 million students are enrolled in private schools, compared with 40 million in public schools, and that ratio has remained fairly steady over the past 15 years. Moreover, the tax credits would drain away funds needed to improve public education. Says Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming...
...like insurance companies and pension funds. While the market for long-term bonds shrank 20% in the past year, the amount of commercial paper outstanding increased 32.7%, to $164 billion. That is five times what it was ten years ago. Laments Donald Woolley, chief economist of Bankers Trust: "The ratio of short-term debt to long-term debt is much too high...