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...didn't go beyond high school, particularly the men. They are the only group that has less money to spend now than it did in 1970--more than $6,000 dollars less in inflation-adjusted annual income. Back in 1970, a high-school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle-income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street and a dingy apartment in a low-rent building...
...five children, promised, ``We will provide a focus for people who are disgusted with their government and unable to express their frustration in other ways.'' For James, and several other Perot followers in New Jersey, the exercise is already real. They are running for the state assembly on the ticket of the New Jersey Conservative Party, an infant group that plans to contest all 80 seats in the lower house this year. If it captures 10% of the popular vote, the party will be entitled to its own ballot position for national and state offices...
...didn't go beyond high school, particularly the men. They are the only group that has less money to spend now than it did in 1970--more than $6,000 dollars less in inflation-adjusted annual income. Back in 1970, a high-school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle-income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street and a dingy apartment in a low-rent building...
...students for whom the system has failed, and that's what enrages me,'' says Susan McCray, a teacher at Boston's urban Fenway Middle College High School, who struggles daily to convince her students that learning can be thrilling for its own sake--as well as a ticket to a better life. ``It has a real effect on real lives...
Kennedy School affiliates as well as Harvard faculty, staff and full-time students may attend the event. Tickets are required and will be distributed by lottery, school officials said. A valid Harvard LI). is required, and there is a limit of one ticket per person...