While both groups improved their odds of finishing college, the affluent improved much more, widening their sizable lead.
In that time, the people of Maplewood, like those of many other towns, grew more affluent, and much more likely to be foreign-born, college-educated and nonwhite.
The real target is what bankers call the "mass affluent," a much larger group that JPMorgan Chase and giant rivals like Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo all covet as they earn less from ordinary savers.
For example, here's data on "enrichment expenditures", defined as "the amount of money families spend per child on books, computers, high-quality child care, summer camps, private schooling, and other things that promote the capabilities of their children": Not only do the affluent spend much more on their children, but the gap has grown a lot since Greg and I were young.
Who is the Mr X and his 'cynical trick' of giving freebies that protect the affluent as much as the poor?
Some shoppers will trade off their time to save money, but the most attractive customers for mall retailers, the affluent, are much more likely to pay more to save time.
The Mailbox: an expansive ghost town for the affluent – pretty much the most expensive place in the UK's not-so-affluent second city.
The Mailbox: an expansive ghost town for the affluent – pretty much the most expensive place in the UK's not-so-affluent second city.
You pay more, corporations and the super-affluent pay much, much less.
One, from the Congressional Budget Office, confirmed an increasingly uneven distribution of wealth in this country, noting that the inflation-adjusted incomes of the most affluent Americans had grown much, much faster over the last three decades than the incomes of the middle class.
