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The Year in Review 2004
Last time current major league champions, the Boston Red Sox, won the World Series: 19181
Last time the minimum wage, currently set at $5.15 an hour, was increased: 19972
Number of Americans who joined the ranks of the impoverished in 2004: 1.3 million3
Number of times Donald Trump uttered the words "you're fired" during the first season of "The Apprentice": 154
Number of Americans that have heard the words "you're fired" since January 2001: 1.6 million5
Percentage of American households that "argue about money-related topics on a regular basis": 95 percent6
Average take home pay for an American worker: $5177
Average take home pay for an American CEO: $155,769 a week8
Share of the nation's $53 trillion debt shouldered by the average American household: $473,4569
Number of Americans who believe a college education will be out of the reach of most families in the future: 8 in 1010
Number of President Bush's daughters who graduated from four-year universities in June 2004: 2 in 211
Number of low- and middle-income African-American High School students who will not be able to go to college because of "financial barriers": 2 in 512
Average increase in cost of tuition at a four-year public institute during the 2003-04 academic year: $579 (14 percent)13
Number of college students who graduated with "unmanageable level of debt": 4 in 1014
Ratio of marriages to divorces by pop star Britney Spears in 2004: 2:115
Ratio of yes votes to no votes on a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage and "protect traditional families": 227:18616
Percentage of working women who provide half or more of the 8income for their families: 55 percent17
Number of United States Senators who are women: 14 in 10018
Amount earned by a woman for every dollar earned by a man: 76 cents19
Number of viewers of the premier episode of ABC's hit show, "Desperate Housewives": 21.5 million20
Likelihood that an African-American family that owns a home will file for bankruptcy compared to their white counterparts: 5:121
Fifty years after the landmark Brown v Board of Education decision, odds of a Black or Latino public high school student graduating in four years: 50/5022
Percentage of students in "schools serving affluent families" who have teachers who majored in the subject they instruct and hold a teaching license in the topic: 70 percent23
Percentage of New York City public middle and high school students in high poverty areas being taught physical sciences by an "unqualified" teacher: 70 percent24
Number of Americans born between 1942 and 1972 in the top quintile of the income distribution that stayed rich: 4 in 1025
Number of Americans born between 1942 and 1972 in the bottom quintile of the income distribution that stayed poor: 4 in 1026
Number of U.S. service jobs expected to be lost due to outsourcing each year over the next decade: 250,00027
Salary of Greg Mankiw, Chairman of White House Council of Economic Advisors, who wrote that the movement of U.S. jobs overseas through outsourcing would prove "a plus for the economy in the long run": $140,00028 29
Number of red, white and blue balloon dropped during the final day of the Republican national Convention held at Madison Square Garden in New York City: 120,00030
Number of New York City's 326,600 unemployed residents who exhausted their federal unemployment benefits in the first six months of 2004: 77,10031
Amount of federal anti-terror dollars received by Alaska per Alaskan: $9232
Amount of federal anti-terror dollars received by New York per New Yorker: $3233
Mandatory sentence received by a first time offender in New York for possession of $20 worth of drugs: 1 to 3 years34
Sentence received by "Domestic Diva" Martha Stewart for lying to investigators about her sale of $228,000 worth of ImClone System's stock in late 2001: 5 months35
Number of campaign stops made by President Bush to Florida in 2004: 1836
Number of hurricanes to hit Florida in 2004: 437
Number of jobs lost in Florida due to hurricanes in 2004: 10,00038
Number of manufacturing jobs lost in Florida since President Bush was sworn into office: 64,10039
Number of American households that possess zero or negative net financial assets: 1 in 340
Number of Americans who "believe that they personally are living the 'American Dream.'": 2 in 341
Last time current major league champions, the Boston Red Sox, won the World Series: 19181
Last time the minimum wage, currently set at $5.15 an hour, was increased: 19972
Number of Americans who joined the ranks of the impoverished in 2004: 1.3 million3
Number of times Donald Trump uttered the words "you're fired" during the first season of "The Apprentice": 154
Number of Americans that have heard the words "you're fired" since January 2001: 1.6 million5
Percentage of American households that "argue about money-related topics on a regular basis": 95 percent6
Average take home pay for an American worker: $5177
Average take home pay for an American CEO: $155,769 a week8
Share of the nation's $53 trillion debt shouldered by the average American household: $473,4569
Number of Americans who believe a college education will be out of the reach of most families in the future: 8 in 1010
Number of President Bush's daughters who graduated from four-year universities in June 2004: 2 in 211
Number of low- and middle-income African-American High School students who will not be able to go to college because of "financial barriers": 2 in 512
Average increase in cost of tuition at a four-year public institute during the 2003-04 academic year: $579 (14 percent)13
Number of college students who graduated with "unmanageable level of debt": 4 in 1014
Ratio of marriages to divorces by pop star Britney Spears in 2004: 2:115
Ratio of yes votes to no votes on a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage and "protect traditional families": 227:18616
Percentage of working women who provide half or more of the 8income for their families: 55 percent17
Number of United States Senators who are women: 14 in 10018
Amount earned by a woman for every dollar earned by a man: 76 cents19
Number of viewers of the premier episode of ABC's hit show, "Desperate Housewives": 21.5 million20
Likelihood that an African-American family that owns a home will file for bankruptcy compared to their white counterparts: 5:121
Fifty years after the landmark Brown v Board of Education decision, odds of a Black or Latino public high school student graduating in four years: 50/5022
Percentage of students in "schools serving affluent families" who have teachers who majored in the subject they instruct and hold a teaching license in the topic: 70 percent23
Percentage of New York City public middle and high school students in high poverty areas being taught physical sciences by an "unqualified" teacher: 70 percent24
Number of Americans born between 1942 and 1972 in the top quintile of the income distribution that stayed rich: 4 in 1025
Number of Americans born between 1942 and 1972 in the bottom quintile of the income distribution that stayed poor: 4 in 1026
Number of U.S. service jobs expected to be lost due to outsourcing each year over the next decade: 250,00027
Salary of Greg Mankiw, Chairman of White House Council of Economic Advisors, who wrote that the movement of U.S. jobs overseas through outsourcing would prove "a plus for the economy in the long run": $140,00028 29
Number of red, white and blue balloon dropped during the final day of the Republican national Convention held at Madison Square Garden in New York City: 120,00030
Number of New York City's 326,600 unemployed residents who exhausted their federal unemployment benefits in the first six months of 2004: 77,10031
Amount of federal anti-terror dollars received by Alaska per Alaskan: $9232
Amount of federal anti-terror dollars received by New York per New Yorker: $3233
Mandatory sentence received by a first time offender in New York for possession of $20 worth of drugs: 1 to 3 years34
Sentence received by "Domestic Diva" Martha Stewart for lying to investigators about her sale of $228,000 worth of ImClone System's stock in late 2001: 5 months35
Number of campaign stops made by President Bush to Florida in 2004: 1836
Number of hurricanes to hit Florida in 2004: 437
Number of jobs lost in Florida due to hurricanes in 2004: 10,00038
Number of manufacturing jobs lost in Florida since President Bush was sworn into office: 64,10039
Number of American households that possess zero or negative net financial assets: 1 in 340
Number of Americans who "believe that they personally are living the 'American Dream.'": 2 in 341
1. http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp?c_id=bos
2. http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/press_040421.stm
3. http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/002484.html
4. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4750777/
5. http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/jobs/jobcrisis.cfm
6. http://www.coeinc.org/financialstatistics.htm
7. http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=111169
8. http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=111169
9. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-10-03-debt-cover_x.htm
10. http://www.soundmindinvesting.com/visitor/2004/apr/feature.htm
11. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/052104_nw_bush_twins.html
12. http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/mar04/216230.asp
13. http://www.collegeaccess.org/NCAN/ItemPage.aspx?groupid=13&id=131
14. http://www.pirg.org/highered/BurdenofBorrowing.pdf
15. http://www.mtve.com/artist.php?ArtistId=80
16. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63122-2004Sep30.html
17. http://www.parentsunite.org/CFparentsunite/press/ParentData090601.html
18. http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0406217.htm
19. http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/R260.pdf
20. http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/27/nielsens.ap/
21. http://www.consumersunion.org/finance/usbankdc201.htm
22. http://www.democrats.org/education/news/200402270001.html
23. http://www.buffalostate.edu/centers/ceure/webfacts.htm
24. http://www.tcf.org/Publications/EconomicsInequality/ragrichrc.pdf
25. http://www.tcf.org/Publications/EconomicsInequality/ragrichrc.pdf
26. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1080997576176370.xml
27. http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/view_art.asp?Prod_ID=952
28. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/13/opinion/main600351.shtml
29. http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040902-122812-6125r.htm
30. http://www.house.gov/maloney/033104NewYorkunemployment.pdf
31. http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/v-textonly/story/9317450p-10224613c.html
32. http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/v-textonly/story/9317450p-10224613c.html
33. http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/drugs/ny-drugs.htm
34. http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/16/news/newsmakers/martha_sentencing/
35. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/elections/2004/charting.html
36. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/04/hurricane.frances/
37. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2004-10-05-fla-tourism_x.htm
38. http://www.showusthejobs.com/yourstate/upload/FL.pdf
39. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+American+dream+in+2004
40. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+American+dream+in+2004
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2. http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/press_040421.stm
3. http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/002484.html
4. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4750777/
5. http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/jobs/jobcrisis.cfm
6. http://www.coeinc.org/financialstatistics.htm
7. http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=111169
8. http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=111169
9. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-10-03-debt-cover_x.htm
10. http://www.soundmindinvesting.com/visitor/2004/apr/feature.htm
11. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/052104_nw_bush_twins.html
12. http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/mar04/216230.asp
13. http://www.collegeaccess.org/NCAN/ItemPage.aspx?groupid=13&id=131
14. http://www.pirg.org/highered/BurdenofBorrowing.pdf
15. http://www.mtve.com/artist.php?ArtistId=80
16. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63122-2004Sep30.html
17. http://www.parentsunite.org/CFparentsunite/press/ParentData090601.html
18. http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0406217.htm
19. http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/R260.pdf
20. http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/27/nielsens.ap/
21. http://www.consumersunion.org/finance/usbankdc201.htm
22. http://www.democrats.org/education/news/200402270001.html
23. http://www.buffalostate.edu/centers/ceure/webfacts.htm
24. http://www.tcf.org/Publications/EconomicsInequality/ragrichrc.pdf
25. http://www.tcf.org/Publications/EconomicsInequality/ragrichrc.pdf
26. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1080997576176370.xml
27. http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/view_art.asp?Prod_ID=952
28. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/13/opinion/main600351.shtml
29. http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040902-122812-6125r.htm
30. http://www.house.gov/maloney/033104NewYorkunemployment.pdf
31. http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/v-textonly/story/9317450p-10224613c.html
32. http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/v-textonly/story/9317450p-10224613c.html
33. http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/drugs/ny-drugs.htm
34. http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/16/news/newsmakers/martha_sentencing/
35. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/elections/2004/charting.html
36. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/04/hurricane.frances/
37. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2004-10-05-fla-tourism_x.htm
38. http://www.showusthejobs.com/yourstate/upload/FL.pdf
39. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+American+dream+in+2004
40. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+American+dream+in+2004
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Past Installments of DMI Injustice Index
The Year in Review 2004
You Go Girl! (July 2004)
Injustice Index:Pomp and Circumstance (June 2004)
The Black Middle Class (May 2004)
The Apprentice (April 2004)
Economic Mobility (March 2004)
White Collar Wonders (February 2004)
The Year in Review 2003
Children... Next (November 2003)
A Taxing Affair (October 2003)
Rich Man's Justice, Poor Man's Justice (Sept. 2003)
Independence Day (July 2003)
The Gay and Lesbian Family (June 2003)
The American Worker (May 2003)
Criminal Injustice (March 2003)
Family Values (February 2003)
The 108th Congress (January 2003)
Shelter (November 2002)
Democracy (October 2002)
Choices (September 2002)
Schools (June 2002)