MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Richard Florida, The Atlantic, June 3, 2011
Want to afford groceries with that salary? Examining America's real incomes shows the value of metro areas like Washington DC and Des Moines.
As anyone who has ever paid Manhattan rents swiftly learns, New York City's relatively high salaries don't go very far. In fact, when cost of living is taken into account, the New York metro posts the second lowest "real income" of any region with more than 500,000 people, according to an analysis commissioned by U.S. News and World Report. New York's median household income of $62,887 falls to an adjusted real income of just $35,370 when cost of living is taken into account. Only the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metro in Texas, one of the very poorest in the nation with an actual income of just $30,460, fares worse with a real income of $34,931.
Des Moines takes the top spot on this real income measure:....
Comments
Riiiiiiight.
Methinks somebody let their indices run away with them a bit. Wow. Love to have people here at Dag reality-test this a bit.
by quinn esq on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 6:44pm
I found this site to be a bit more usefull though.
http://www.nhc.org/chp/p2p/
by cmaukonen on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 8:27pm