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...point this mutual omission became all too obvious. Lindsay trumpeted the fact that the median family income in the United States has risen by $200 over the last eight years. Kuttner responded that while the richest 30 percent of the population did gain, the bottom 70 percent lost...
...Hispanics have had a political folk hero lately, it has been bright and handsome mayor Henry Cisneros of San Antonio. So high had his star risen during four much admired terms in office that in 1984 Cisneros was considered a potential Democratic vice-presidential candidate. But last week the mayor, 41, took a dive off his pedestal into the sort of public mess that swallowed up Gary Hart. Cisneros confessed, in an off-the-record interview with columnist Paul Thompson, published by the San Antonio Express-News, that he has been entangled in a two-year love affair with...
Raise the minimum wage. The best way to help the working homeless is to pay them better: the national minimum wage has stayed at $3.35 an hour since 1981, while the cost of living has risen by a third. Modest financial help is already coming from some states. California raised its minimum wage to $4.25 an hour in July. Other states provide more direct assistance: New Jersey has prevented 12,000 families from being evicted over the past four years by providing loans and grants to help pay rents and mortgages...
They are also demanding consumers. As the number of older students has risen, so have calls for on-site day care, flexible course schedules to accommodate full-time jobs, longer hours for campus bookstores and libraries, and more aggressive job counseling and placement. Schools are rethinking who they are. "We have had to come down from our ivory tower," says Donald Baker, dean of the College of Continuing Education at Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.). "Quality and service are as important in education as in industry...
...number of education experts--including former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett--say that schools increasingly believe that higher price tags are seen as a measure of selectivity. Officials at Mount Holyoke College, which has risen into the ranks of the country's most expensive colleges, say universities are raising tuition to seem more desirable to students. At the South Hadley, Mass. school, applications shot up as tuition rose in past years...