In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Great Post at the Daily Kos
Daily Kos :: More 'Bush by the Numbers'
- 34.6m Number of Americans living below the poverty line (1 in 8 of the population).
6.8m Number of people in the workforce but still classified as poor.- 35m Number of Americans that the government defines as "food insecure," in other words, hungry.
- $300m Amount cut from the federal programme that provides subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes.
- 40 Percentage of wealth in the United States held by the richest 1% of the population.
- 18 Percentage of wealth in Britain held by the richest 1% of the population.
- 43.6m Number of Americans without health insurance by the end of 2002 (more than 15 per cent of the population).
- 2.4m Number of Americans who lost their health insurance during Bush's first year in office.
- $10.9m Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person cabinet.
- 75 Percentage of Americans unaffected by Bush's sweeping 2003 cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes.
- $42,000 Average savings members of Bush's cabinet received in 2003 as a result of cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes.
- 4.7m Number of bankruptcies that were declared during Bush's first three years in office.
- 2002 The worst year for major markets since the recession of the 1970s.
- $489bn The US trade deficit in 2003, the worst in history for a single year.
- $5.6tr Projected national surplus forecast by the end of the decade when Bush took office in 2001.
- $7.22tr US national debt by mid-2004.
- 87 Percentage of American families in April 2004 who say they have felt no benefit from Bush's tax cuts.
- 39 Percentage of tax cuts that will go to the top 1 per cent of American families when fully phased in.
- 49 Percentage of Americans in April 2004 who found that their taxes had actually gone up since Bush took office.
- 88 Percentage of American families who will save less than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and dividends taxes.
- 9.3m Number of US unemployed in April 2004.
- 2.3m Number of Americans who lost their jobs during first three Years of the Bush administration.
- 22m Number of jobs gained during Clinton's eight years in office.
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