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Newsline: April 2004
The Bush Record -- By the Numbers
2.9 million
private-sector jobs lost
Jan. 2001-Jan. 2004
– Bureau of Labor Statistics
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10.5 percent
of African Americans officially unemployed Jan. 2004, compares with 8.2% in Jan. 2001
– Bureau of Labor Statistics |
2.8 million
manufacturing jobs lost
Jan. 2001-Jan. 2004
– Bureau of Labor Statistics |
5 percent
of women officially
unemployed
Jan. 2004, compares with
4.1% in Jan. 2001
– Bureau of Labor Statistics |
3 million
more people in poverty
2000-2002
– U.S. Census Bureau |
7.3 percent
of Latinos officially unemployed
Jan. 2004, compares with
5.8% in Jan. 2001
– Bureau of Labor Statistics |
14.7 million
workers unemployed,
underemployed or given up
- Bureau of Labor Statistics |
9.8 percent
of young workers are
officially unemployed
Ages 20-24, Jan. 2004,
compares with 7.0% in Dec. 2000
– Bureau of Labor Statistics |
1.9 million
workers jobless for 27 weeks or more, the same 10-year-high rate reached in August
Jan. 2004 – Bureau of Labor Statistics |
Nearly 75 million
Americans without health insurance at some point, 2000-2002
– Families USA |
1.7 percent
decrease in median family income 2000-2002, from $43,374 to $42,654
– U.S. Census Bureau |
26 percent
couldn’t pay for family health care needs 2002
– The Pew Research Center |
8 million
workers could lose overtime pay under Bush’s proposed Fair Labor Standards Act
changes
– Economic Policy Institute |
50 percent
increase in average worker’s cost for family health insurance 2000-2002, from $1,619
to $2,412 per year
– Kaiser Family Foundation; Health
Research and Educational Trust |
39 percent
of the 2001-2003 tax cuts going to the top 1% of earners (those with incomes above $337,000)
by year 2010, if cuts become permanent, Fall 2003
– Citizens for Tax Justice |
7.4 percent
of federal taxes paid by corporations 2003, compares with 27.5 percent in the 1950s
– Fiscal Year 2005 federal budget,
Historical Tables, Table 2.2 |
Union rights up for grabs
for as many as
230,000 federal employees |
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