is going into the red at the rate of $991,000 per minute.
is maintained by a company incorporated in Bermuda.
, corporate tax collections have fallen by $11 billion.
workers in Iraq and Kuwait, 4,000 more than the number of British soldiers deployed there.
of the SUVs sold in America today will meet China's proposed fuel-economy standards.
trends continue, 15% to 37% of the world's species will be extinct by 2050.
think the biblical story of the world being created in six days is "literally true".
The Passion of the Christ "nail pendants" were sold the week Mel Gibson's film opened.
workers say they received "no meaningful rewards or recognition" for their work last year.
Still Glass, Getting Lower Working women make 79.7¢ on the male dollar, down from 80.4¢ in 1983. That's already adjusting for maternity leave and other child-rearing factors. If such choices are not factored in, women make only 44¢ on the male dollar. Female professionals average $10,000 less than their male counterparts. Over a 40-year career, that difference (compounded 10% annually) costs each of them $4 million. |
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"disengaged" clock-watchers.
the Bush tax cuts this year alone is enough to give $9,793 to each of the 2.9 million people who've lost their jobs since he took office.
the Bush tax cuts over the next decade equals Social Security's baby-boomer reserve.
, 48% of senior citizens would live in poverty.
, 476 more Americans died of malnutrition than from terrorism.
gained an estimated total of 150,000,000 pounds in the last year.
an average of 6 pounds more than city dwellers.
115 Americans works for Wal-Mart.
$1,000 in catastrophic health coverage, but they must pay at least $500 a year for it.
What Did Bush Give to You? We all know that the bush income-tax cuts were a boon to the richest Americans. But did you know that an executive making $1 million gets an annual tax savings of $63,211 -- more than the pretax salaries of three Wal-Mart associates combined? Here, the Bush income-tax cuts represented as an hourly take-home raise, across the income spectrum: |
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ANNUAL INCOME |
TAKE-HOME RAISE FROM BUSH TAX CUTS |
THAT'S LIKE _____ EVERY MONTH |
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$10,000 |
5¢/hr |
($8) medium Domino's pizza |
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$20,000 |
21¢/hr |
($36) basic cable bill |
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$35,000 |
43¢/hr |
($71) two Pampers Baby-Dry value packs |
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$55,000 |
74¢/hr |
($123) car insurance on '99 Accord |
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$100,000 |
$1.73/hr |
($289) iPod mini + 40 iTunes |
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$200,000 |
$3.72/hr |
($620) pair of Manolo Blahnik Sedara d'Orsay pumps |
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$1,000,000 |
$31.61/hr |
($5,268) 12-day cruise for two on the Queen Mary 2 |
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of all Salvadorans would like to move to the U.S.
the last state to repeal a ban against interracial marriage -- in 2000.
voted against lifting that ban.
were named the worst technology of 2003 by Fortune magazine.
two members of Yale's Skull and Bones could face each other in a presidential election are 1 in 26 billion.