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Speaking of the high cost of living in Manhattan, the Census Bureaus American Community Survey finds that the top 5 percent of households earned $864,394, or 88 times as much as the poorest 20 percent in NYC last year. The median income is up to $52,223 from $52,640, though still lower than the $55,307 from 2008. Non-Hispanic Whites have the highest median income at $75,145 and Hispanics have the lowest with $36,196.About 1.7 million New Yorkers live below the poverty line.

According toThe New York Times,the disparity is caused by the resurgence of the financial industry, with hedge funds and investment banks surging in the recovery after dipping low during the worst of the Great Recession.

At least we have a small decline in the poverty level, which was 14.5 percent in 2013, down from 15 percent. Still, those living at or below the poverty line is 45 million.For Hispanics nationwide, themedian income has gone up 3.5 percent in the last year.

A disproportionate number of African Americans nationwide live in poverty, however. There are so many in the Black population mired in poverty that getting out is incredibly difficult. And a third of all the poor are children. That increase in the median income for Hispanics has a big impact on the number of children in poverty as four in 10 are of Hispanic origin.

Nationwide, the media income is just under $52,000, about where it was in 2012 and eight percent lower than it was in 2008. The median income for women is $39,000 versus $50,000 for men. So women on average are making 78 percent of what men are.

Long story short, there are various kinds of income inequality in this country. And its time we try to tackle all of them.

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Developers broke ground a few days ago at 16th and N Streets for the new Eviva Midtown apartment building. But in reality, most of the complex will be built miles away in a former aircraft hangar.

The six-story project formerly called The Warren will be constructed piece by piece out of prefabricated housing units assembled by Zeta Communities at McClellan Park in North Highlands. The modular units will be trucked to the building site, where a crane will lift and stack them atop a concrete podium.

The individual units will roll off the assembly line at the Zeta plant complete with bathrooms, kitchens and flooring. They will be bolted together, connected to utilities and covered with a roof and external skin to create five stories of apartments above street-level shops and underground parking.

Theres tremendous time saved because were working on what will go on top of the foundation while (the general contractor is) doing site work and utilities, said Dennis Gleason, project manager at Zeta. By the time they finish the foundation, we have units stored here that are ready to be shipped to the site and put in place.

Its the first time the method has been used in the capital, though several structures in Davis, San Francisco and Silicon Valley have been assembled from Zetas prefab units.

The midtown structure is also a first for Atlanta-based developer The Integral Group, which intends to build more Eviva-brand apartments in San Francisco, Denver and Atlanta. The Sacramento building is a prototype of sleek inner-city apartment buildings that will replace urban eyesores.

The word Eviva is literally the center of the word revival, Chris Martorella, president of Integrals investment management division, told an audience at Thursdays groundbreaking ceremony. He called the projects modular construction the future of efficient building techniques, although he said it wont be used in the other Eviva projects.

When completed in late 2015, Eviva Midtown will feature 118 high-end rental units, a yoga studio and a movie-screening lawn, among other amenities, Martorella said. Plans for the ground floor include more than 5,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.

Rents will range from $1,600 a month for a one-bedroom apartment to $2,150 for a two-bedroom unit, and premium corner units will rent for more, said Marc de la Vergne, deputy executive director of the Capital Area Development Authority, the city-state agency that initiated the project.

They (Integral) view Sacramento as a great place to launch the Eviva line of apartments, de la Vergne said.

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Wing Daddy's Sauce House's East Central location is at 1201 Airway. By the end of October, the owners expect to open the chain's first New Mexico location in Las Cruces, its third San Antonio location, and a third location in Mexico in Nuevo Laredo. (Rudy GutierrezEl Paso Times)

Wing Daddy's Sauce House, a fast-growing El Paso restaurant chain, has opened restaurants in San Antonio and Mexico, but its three owners are now ready to spread their wings even further via franchising.

"Over a year ago, we started the process. It's a long, complicated process to be legally franchisable," said Mario Southern, one of three partners who started the chain six years ago after jotting down their restaurant ideas on a napkin during a bull session at a local sports bar.

Wing Daddy's has found success in the competitive, and increasingly crowded sports bar and chicken wings niche.

But the owners don't like their restaurants labeled as sports bars.

"We're called a sauce house (the restaurant features 17, daily-made dipping sauces), not a sports bar," partner Ryan McNellis said last week as he and Southern drove back from Las Cruces, where they checked on a restaurant under construction there. "You would never take kids to a sports bar. We're a sports restaurant."

Wing Daddy's focuses on food (its extensive menu includes not only chicken wings, but ribs, burgers, and other fare) and on being family friendly unlike competitors such as Hooters, Twin Peaks, and Buffalo Wild Wings, Southern said last week. He sat inside a Wing Daddy's tucked inside a shopping center at 1201 Airway in East Central El Paso.

A bevy of female waitresses stood near the front door as the lunch crowd filtered in. Wing Daddy's has all-female wait staffs like many of its competitors. But unlike some of the competition, they don't wear provocative uniforms because of Wing Daddy's family-friendly mode, noted Gerry Lopez, Wing Daddy's district manager.

The chain has nine locations: Five in El Paso, two in San Antonio, and two in Mexico. By the end of October, the owners expect to open the chain's first New Mexico location in Las Cruces, its third San Antonio location, and a third location in Mexico in Nuevo Laredo. It also is about to begin construction on a location in Monterrey, Mexico.

The Mexico restaurants are part of a joint venture with a Jurez partner that Southern didn't want to name because of safety issues in Mexico.

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