Poll: Majority ofaaims
would keep careers
NEW YORK (AP) — Half of
the adults In a recent nation
wide poll said they would
choose the same career if they
couli make choices in their life
over again.
Tho 45 porcont who said they
would choose a different career
were almost equally divided
among thoso who would
choose ono more financially re
warding. more personally re
warding, or both. Fivo porcont
didn’t know if they would
choose differently.
Just 18 percent of the 1,296
people polled by tho Roper Or
ganization said they believe
their careers are both personal
ly and financially rewarding
Half those polled said tho ca
reer they havo chosen for them
selves is more rewarding per
sonally than financially.
Shoarson Lehman Brothers,
an investment banking compa
ny, sponsored the poll as part
of a larger study of how people
look at their lives, money and
"the American dream.”
Mon wore more likoly to say
they got more financial than
personal rewards from their ca
reer, 25 porcont compared with
18 percent of women.
Looking at the results by oc
cupation, thoso most likoly to
want a different career are bluo
collar workers, 62 porcont, and
thoso least likoly are executives
and professionals, 36 porcont.
Monoy may help explain this
difference, because only 22 per
Those most likely
to went a different
career are blue
collar workers, 62
percent, and those
least likely are
executives and
professionals, 36
percent
cant of those with family in
comes of more than $100,000
would choose a different career
if they could.
About throe in 10 of those
with weekday jobs said they of
ten work on weekends, and
that number rises to four in 10
among unmarried people.
Asked to estimate the number
of hours per week they work at
their jol)s, the midpoint umong
men is 45 hours, compared
with 40 hours for women.
Those who have more than
$100,000 in savings and invest
ments say they work a median
of 50 hours.
Most polls reported in the
media don't break out figures
for such high-income Ameri
cans because too few people
are included. Bui given the poll
sponsor's interest in that mar
ket, Ropor folded In an ade
quate sample of that group. The
ovorall results had a margin of
error of plus or minus 3 per
centage points.
Right-wing
increasing
censorship
in schools
WASHINGTON (AIM ~
Textbooks, student newspa
pers and other school mate
rials are under Increasing at
tack by religious extremists
and right-wing groups, a lib
eral. anti-conxorship organi
zation said
"Censorship is exploding
in our public schools, a
trend that poses a direct and
serious threat to the mission
of education in a free socie
ty," said Arthur J. Kropp,
president of People for the
American Way
The organization, founded
by television producer Nor
man Lear to promote civil
liberties, said it found 37t>
instances, in 44 states, of at
tempted censorship in the
schools during the 1991-92
academic year. The censor
ship efforts succeeded in
more than four out of 10
coses, tho report said.
The previous year, 204
censorship incidents were
reported, tho group said.
Among the challenged
books were The Catcher In
the Rye, The Color Purple,
The Adventures of Huckle
berry Finn. Native Son, The
Crapes of Wrath and All the
King's Men, the group said.
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