Andrea Batista Schlesinger

DMI on the SOTU: “The state of our union is strong”

* Increase in the number of Americans living in poverty between 2003 and 2004: 1.1 million
* Increase in the number of hungry households since 1999: 43%
* Change in typical weekly earnings, adjusted for inflation, from December 2004 to December 2005: -0.4%
* Increase in the cost of health care premiums in 2005: 9.2%
* Increase since 2000 in the cost of premiums for family health care coverage: 73%
* Increase in tuition and fees at the average public four-year college over the past year: 7.1%
* Percentage of the President's 2003 tax cuts that went to the top 1% income earners: 40 percent

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Posted at 9:15 PM, Jan 31, 2006 in Economic Opportunity
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