Philadelphia has the highest rate of deep poverty – people with incomes below half of the poverty line – of any of the nation’s 10 most populous cities.
The annual salary for a single person at half the poverty line is around $5,700; for a family of four, it’s around $11,700.
Philadelphia’s deep-poverty rate is 12.9 percent, or around 200,000 people.
Phoenix, Chicago, and Dallas are the nearest to Philadelphia, with deep-poverty rates of more than 10 percent.
English: Publicity photo of Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden from I Dream of Jeannie. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
.R. Ewing was a business cheat, faithless husband and bottomless well of corruption. Yet with his sparkling grin, Larry Hagman masterfully created the charmingly loathsome oil baron — and coaxed forth a Texas-size gusher of ratings — on television’s long-running and hugely successful nighttime soap, “Dallas.”
Although he first gained fame as nice guy Capt. Tony Nelson on the fluffy 1965-70 NBC comedy “I Dream of Jeannie,” Hagman earned his greatest stardom with J.R. The CBS serial drama about the Ewing family and those in their orbit aired from April 1978 to May 1991, and broke viewing records with its “Who shot J.R.?” 1980 cliffhanger that left unclear if Hagman’s character was dead.
The actor, who returned as J.R. in a new edition of “Dallas” this year, had a long history of health problems and died Friday due to complications from his battle with cancer, his family said.
“Larry was back in his beloved hometown of Dallas, re-enacting the iconic role he loved the most. Larry’s family and closest friends had joined him in Dallas for the Thanksgiving holiday,” the family said in a statement that was provided to The Associated Press by Warner Bros., producer of the show.
7-Eleven grows at the rate of a new store opening every three and a half hours. Really…is that even necessary? According to 7-Eleven brass, they will add another 2,000 to 2,500 more stores worldwide in 2011. Five hundred of those will be in the U.S. and Canada.
7-Eleven said they have significant room to grow. Amazingly, 7-Eleven only operates in 30 U.S. states. 7-Eleven is a subsidiary of Seven-Eleven Japan. Yes, you read that correctly. The chain started in Dallas, Texas in 1927. 7-Eleven is now looking to buy existing convenience stores and convert them to 7-Eleven’s. They are the Borg of the convenience store world. Resistance is futile.
Another head-scratching factoid is that with a gazillion stores, 7-Eleven stores make up only 5% of the total number of convenience stores in our great nation. Again, you read that correctly. Cigarettes are 7-Eleven’s biggest selling item; however, customers can expect to see more hot food and bakery items down the road.
The chain also has a large private-label program thereby allowing them, sometimes, to only sell the 7-Eleven brand of a particular product. Less than half of 7-Eleven’s stores sell gasoline, which helps the company open stores faster and in smaller spaces. On the other hand, 80% of U.S. convenience stores sell fuel.
Oh thank heaven for 7-Eleven…evidently.
