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  1. Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!daemon
  3. From: RF <C45807EC%WUVMD.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
  4. Subject:      Life in the Brush of Bush (statistics)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep4.193514.13648@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
  6. Followup-To: alt.activism.d
  7. Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  8. Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  10. Organization: ?
  11. Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
  12. Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:35:14 GMT
  13. Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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  15.  
  16.  
  17. How Things Have Gone During President Bush's Term
  18. Statistics from _Mother Jones_
  19.  
  20. National debt:  +$1,477,000,000,000 (up 57%)
  21. Budget deficit:  +$244,500,000,000 (up 157%)
  22. Americans unemployed for 6 months or longer:  +1,127,000 (up 133%)
  23. Mean annual income of the wealthiest 5 percent of US families:  +$7,286
  24. (up 5%)
  25. Mean annual income of the poorest one-fifth:  -$54 (down .5%)
  26. Hourly earnings for blue-collar workers:  -$1 (down 10%)
  27. Number of millionaires:  +28,100 (up 81%)
  28. Americans with no health insurance:  +4,600,000 (up 15%)
  29. Families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children:  +944,000
  30. (up 25%)
  31. Median monthly payment to those families:  -$49.26 (down 12%)
  32. Children living in poverty:  +500,000 (up 4%)
  33. Violent crimes:  +95,278 (up 21%)
  34. Americans in prison:  +177,122 (up 28%)
  35. Americans on death row:  +464 (up 22%)
  36.  
  37. ______________________________________
  38. |  Rick Francis  C47805NF@WUVMD      |
  39. |  Dep't of Comparative Literature,  |
  40. |  Box 1107                          |
  41. |  Washington University             |
  42. |  St. Louis, MO  63130              |
  43. ______________________________________
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