I didn't know that the US had more people in prison than China.
Chris Doss, every list's favorite forwarder.
>From: "Dwight Welch" <universalist at hotmail.com>
>To: socialistsunmoderated at debs.pinko.net
>Subject: Kewl Stats
>Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:39:26 PDT
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>HARTFORD ADVOCATE
>-- According to Nader, the top 1 percent of the richest Americans have
>wealth equal to the combined wealth of 95 percent of other Americans: "It
>used to be said a rising economic tide lifts all boats. Now a rising
>economic tide lifts all yachts."
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>-- Twenty percent of American children live in poverty; in the Netherlands
>that figure is 3 percent.
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>-- The minimum wage today is lower, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than in
>1979.
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>-- Today's worker works 160 hours longer per year than 25 years ago.
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>-- Bill Gates' wealth equals the combined wealth of the poorest 120 million
>Americans, or 45 percent of our population. "This is a failure of the
>political system to defend the people."
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>-- Less than one in 10 workers belongs to a trade union in the private
>sector.
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>-- Two million Americans are in prisons, 500,000 more than in communist
>China, which has a 1.3 billion population.
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>-- Forty-seven million people work for less than $10 an hour -- this in a
>decade of sustained economic growth. "With a wage like that, people can't
>be considered employed despite the fact that they have jobs."
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>"When it comes to corporate greed, the synonym is infinity. They want it
>all."
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>© 2000 Hartford Advocate
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