Wed Sep 23, 2009 at 01:15:00 PM EDT
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Sometimes reading these stories is like playing hide and seek with my niece or nephew. You have to really look to find the news. The Star Ledger put up a piece last night talking about how more people are losing their work sponsored health insurance coverage, but that the state is still lower than the national average. While it's good news we're below the national average and bad news that more people are losing coverage, the better news is buried deep in paragraph nine of the story:New Jersey was in a statistical tie with Maryland for the No. 1 spot in median income with an average of $70,378, and was only one of five states that saw an increase in real median household income between 2007 and 2008. (The other states were: Kansas, Louisiana, New York and Texas.) So we are number 1, as in highest median income average in the country. And we're 1 of only 5 states that saw an increase in that median income. Yet the Star Ledger glosses over it as if it were some throw away line in their story. Oh wait, it was. |
| Jason Springer :: NJ was one of five states to see real median household income increase from '07-08 |
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