FRIDAY FLASHBACK: “Can you work your way through college?” — from the July 1960 issue. Today, the answer for most students is no.
FRIDAY FLASHBACK: A very 90s illustration from the February 1991 issue.
FRIDAY FLASHBACK: New road signs in the April 1972 issue.
FRIDAY FLASHBACK: A cool illustration from the July 1971 magazine.
U.S. Wealth Distribution: Perception vs Reality
Favorite research ever.
Woah. That’s a pretty huge difference.
Do you have $43,000? Good, because you can afford to send your child to one of the most expensive four-year private colleges — including Connecticut College, Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University — for a single year.
In other news, the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York City, which teaches acupuncture and other traditional East Asian medical practices, is the most expensive four-year, for-profit college in the country, at $49,116 a year.
Daily chart: fun with pensions. Pensionable ages have failed to keep pace with longevity—this comes at an increasing cost to the state. In 1970 the average Frenchman entering retirement could expect to live for just over ten years. Now he could expect to live for 23.
Yikes, check out the U.S. line. The average American lives nearly 20 years past official retirement age. (Also, Japan and Italy retire by 50?!)
