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"AS the Yonkers public schools emerge from years of financial shortfalls and acrimony over desegregation and cutbacks, the school district, the state's fourth largest, is now looking to the private sector to assist its campaign to improve student achievement." This article is about helping the public schools in terms of funds and finding ways to achieve better learning environments for the students.

"The Pew report shows that all income groups lost wealth from 2007 to 2010, but that the recovery has disproportionally benefitted the richest among us. Their median wealth increased to $639,400 in 2013, from $595,300 in 2010. By contrast, the wealth of middle-income households was stagnant at $96,500. (These numbers have been adjusted for inflation.)" This article is about how over the past couple years, the average wealth for the upper class has increased, but the average wealth for the middle class has stayed the same.