I posted this yesterday, but it sank like a lead balloon. Someone else got permission to post it in its entirety:
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/news2006/0201-18.htmFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 1, 2006
8:00 AM
CONTACT: Campaign for America's Future
Toby Chaudhuri
202-955-5665 x153
chaudhuri@ourfuture.org
State of the Union 2006: By the Numbers WASHINGTON - February 1 -
ON INCOMES:--Inflation-adjusted average CEO pay at depth of recession in 2002: $7,773,000
--Average CEO pay as of 2004: $9,600,000
--Increase in productivity for 2005: +13.5 percent
--Percentage increase in average American CEO’s compensation since 2002: +24 percent
--Inflation-adjusted median household income in 2000: $46,058
--Median household income in 2004: $44,389
--Decrease in median income from 2000-2004 in White households: $1,066
--Decrease in median income from 2000-2004 in Hispanic households: $2,141
--Decrease in median income from 2000-2004 in Black households: $2,407
ON JOBS:
--American manufacturing jobs in 2001: 17,101,000
--American manufacturing jobs in 2005: 14,283,000
--Number of private sector jobs created since 2001 excluding those produced by increased military spending: -1,160,000
--Number of American manufacturing jobs lost since 2001: 2,818,000
--Average number of fewer hours per week parents have to spend with their kids today than 35 years ago: 22
--Percentage decrease in average American household income since 2000: -3 percent
ON ENERGY:
--Average price of a gallon of gasoline in 2000: $1.51
--Average price of a gallon of gasoline in 2005: $2.28
--Percentage increase in the price of a gallon of gasoline since 2000: +51 percent
--Percentage increase in the price of a gallon of home heating oil since 2000: +94 percent
--Average price of a gallon of home heating oil, Winter of 1999-2000: $1.24
--Projected price of a gallon of home heating oil, Winter of 2005-2006: $2.41
--Average increase in profits for oil companies in third quarter of 2005: +69 percent
--Amount of subsidies provided to oil industry in 2005 energy bill: $6 billion
ON HEALTH CARE:
--Percentage of companies that provided health care to their employees in 2000: 69 percent
--Percentage of companies that provided health care to their employees in 2005: 60 percent
--Number of Americans without health insurance in 2000: 39,800,000
--Number of Americans without health insurance as of 2004: 45,800,000
--Percentage of companies that provided healthcare insurance to their employees as of 2005: 60 percent
--Number of additional Americans without health insurance since 2000: 6,000,000
ON COLLEGE COSTS:
--Average cost of yearly tuition at a 4-year public university in 2000: $7,020
--Average cost of yearly tuition at a 4-year public university in 2005: $10,982
--Average increase in yearly tuition costs for public university students since 2000: +$3,962
--Average loan burden a carried by student upon graduation as of 2003: $18,900
--Average increase families will pay in student loan interests due to Republican cuts in the 2006 education budget: $2,000 for students, $3,000 for parents
ON RETIREMENT SECURITY:
--Americans working in private sector who can rely on a defined pension as of 2004: 6 percent
--Baby Boomers who believe they’re very prepared to meet living expenses of retirement as of 2005: 24 percent
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