Here's a sample from their list:
Wages that an average CEO earns before lunchtime: more than a full-time minimum wage worker makes in a yearThis kind of economic injustice typifies the Bush administration. They've catered to corporations and the rich, while leaving families at the middle and lower rungs behind.
Ratio of the average U.S. CEO’s annual pay to a minimum wage worker’s: 821:1
Years of unused vacation time that American workers collectively give back to their employers each year: 1.6 million
Percentage of women earning less than $40,000 per year who receive no paid vacation time at all: 37
Number of times that Congress has reduced the estate tax since it last raised the federal minimum wage: 9
Amount in tax breaks and subsidies that last year’s energy bill paid out to the gas and oil industry during a period of record profits and higher prices at the pump: $6 billion
Total Wal-Mart received in government subsidies, sometimes called “corporate welfare” by activists, in 2005: $3.75 billion
Ratio of compensation of CEOs of publicly traded defense companies to privates before September 11th, 2001: 190 to 1
Ratio in 2006: 308 to 1
Percentage increase in out-of-pocket medical expenses for the average American in the past 5 years: 93
Estimated amount the U.S. would save each year on paperwork if it adopted single-payer health care: $161,000,000,000
3 comments:
And as long as the one percenters salaries are figured into the GNP, the economy will always appear to be booming.
These stats are enough to make you sick, which is unfortunate because too many of us can't afford to be sick.
Troll, good point, and it's also why public sentiment doesn't match the optimistic news the media keeps pushing.
Abi, that statistic about out-of-pocket medical expenses increasing 93% in the last 5 years was unbelievable? Those expenses really erode any wage increases a person might get too.
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