Excerpts from Stephen Miller at Yes! Magazine’s “The Page That Counts”:
Average number of years the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans outlive the poorest 1 percent: 10 to 15 [...]
Total number of vacation days unused by American employees in 2016: 662 million
Percent of men who say vacation time is “extremely” important to them: 49
Of women: 58
Percent of men who used all their allotted vacation days: 48
Of women: 44
Additional income women working full time would have earned in 2016 had they been paid the same hourly wages as their male counterparts: $42 billion
Increase in median cost of a single family home in Texas between 2010 and 2017: $90,000
Change in Texas minimum wage between 2010 and 2017: $0
Weekly hours a Texan working at the minimum wage is enough to afford a two-bedroom rental: 117 [...]
Rank of Texas among states with most workers earning at or below minimum wage: 1
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“For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.”
~Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech in Madison Square Gardens, Oct. 31, 1936
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On this date at Daily Kos in 2004—Bush sweats “insider” books:
The Bush White House is nervous about two forthcoming books by former insiders. Ex-Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill assails the president for a lack of interest in substantive policy in a book written by journalist Ron Suskind that will be trotted out with great fanfare on CBS's "60 Minutes" this weekend.
One Bush insider, however, ventures that no one really cares what a former Treasury secretary says. But, a book due out later by Richard Clarke, the White House's top terror expert under both President Clinton and President Bush, is another matter. Mr. Clarke is known to feel the Bush administration largely ignored the threat of terrorism and Osama bin Laden before 9-11, even after al Qaeda in June 2001 claimed responsibility for the bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 American soldiers.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: It’s time to sound the warning bell about Mueller’s attempt to question Dotard J. Trump. Your newspapers say Trump simply can’t refuse. But he can. So be ready. Speaking of your newspapers, Armando takes the wheel, then takes the NYT to the woodshed.
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