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Originally Posted by wordsmythe  Half the nation's families earn below the median family income of about $56,000. |
That sentence just bugs the heck out of me, perhaps the writer thinks the rest of America is as math challenged as he/she is. The article could have said that half the nation's families earn above the median family income of about $56,000 too.
median: noun:
The middle value in a distribution, above and below which lie an equal number of values.