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August's Lowdown
Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive
Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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Sources for issue
Economy
Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
Corporate profits
US Dept. of Commerce
Net worth and the number of billionaires, plus CEOs' salaries -- Forbes
Bush tax cuts to to 1% -- Congressional Budget Office. Note: This is how much more the top 1% would have paid over 7 years if not for Bush's tax cut.
How the rest of us get by
Poverty & diversity: http://www.ourfuture.org/real-state-union-2008-numbers
Education info: http://projectonstudentdebt.org/
Energy
Oil prices: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/info_glance/petroleum.html
Exxon profits; http://money.cnn.com/quote/financials/financials.html?symb=XOM&sid=161455&report=1&period=annual
Health insurance
Health Insurance Estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau: Background for a New Historical Series
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/usernote/revhlth_paper.pdf
Agricultural imports
"Food Imports Often Escape Scrutiny," May 1, 2007, NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/business/01food.html
Housing
Apartment rentals: http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/AvgRentalPrices.html
Foreclosure and housing crisis info: The National Low Income Housing Coalition's 2008 Advocates' Guide, http://www.nlihc.org/doc/AdvocacyGuide2008-web.pdf