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- From: RF <C45807EC%WUVMD.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
- Subject: Life in the Brush of Bush (statistics)
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- How Things Have Gone During President Bush's Term
- Statistics from _Mother Jones_
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- National debt: +$1,477,000,000,000 (up 57%)
- Budget deficit: +$244,500,000,000 (up 157%)
- Americans unemployed for 6 months or longer: +1,127,000 (up 133%)
- Mean annual income of the wealthiest 5 percent of US families: +$7,286
- (up 5%)
- Mean annual income of the poorest one-fifth: -$54 (down .5%)
- Hourly earnings for blue-collar workers: -$1 (down 10%)
- Number of millionaires: +28,100 (up 81%)
- Americans with no health insurance: +4,600,000 (up 15%)
- Families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children: +944,000
- (up 25%)
- Median monthly payment to those families: -$49.26 (down 12%)
- Children living in poverty: +500,000 (up 4%)
- Violent crimes: +95,278 (up 21%)
- Americans in prison: +177,122 (up 28%)
- Americans on death row: +464 (up 22%)
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