* 44 Million Americans on food stamps, including 1 out of 4 children
* # of low income jobs now = 41% of all jobs in U.S.
* 50 million people have no health insurance
* 5.5 million unemployed receive no unemployment
* The percentage of millionaires in Congress is 50x higher than the percentage of millionaires in the general population
* Student Loan Debt = $1 Trillion Dollars, having now surpassed U.S. credit card debt
* Cost of college education is now 900% more than it was in 1978
Thanks mom, and U.S. Business Insider.
Here's a nice piece from U.S. BI detailing real facts about our economic 'recovery'. Which concludes that... drum roll... Picture from Wikipedia's page on Economic Inequality
Private-sector job growth under Barack Obama has been just as good if not better than it was under George Bush.
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