$68,885                 The amount of wealth produced by the average U.S. worker in a year

$29,544                 Average annual income of American worker

$39,341                 Amount of wealth that the average American creates in a year but does not retain

1 day                      The amount of time the average CEO of a large American company has to work to earn the amount that the average American worker earns in a year

22,255                   Number of years the average American worker would have to work to earn the average annual salary of the top 20 private equity and hedge fund managers in 2006

84                           Percentage of American wealth owned by the richest 20%.

21.9                        Percentage of children living in poverty in the United States

$12                         Minimum wage in Ireland

$5.85                      New American minimum wage

7                              The percent decrease of the buying power of the new minimum wage compared with the old minimum wage ten years ago

45                           The percent increase in average American CEO pay over the last ten years

1:3                          The ratio of European CEOs’ income to the income of their American counterparts

33                           Percentage of Americans who don’t take their allotted vacation time

25                           Percentage of American in the private sector who do not get any vacation.

240                         Difference between the number of hours worked by the average American worker and average French worker in 2006

477 billion             Amount that Bush tax cuts give the wealthiest one percent of Americans

20                           Percentage of Americans with subprime mortgages expected to lose their homes

11                           Percent that Congress has cut federal funding for housing over the last two years

40.8                        Measure of income inequality (Gini coefficient) shared by three nations: United States, Turkmenistan and Ghana (The Gini coefficient measures income distribution. A score of 100 means that one person has all the wealth and a score of 9 means that everybody shares wealth equally. The United States is the only industrialized county with a score above 40).

33                           Percentage of federal revenue from corporate taxes in 1950’s

7.4                          Percentage of federal revenue from corporate taxes in 2003

17.7                                    Percent tax rate paid by Warren Buffett

30                           Percent tax rate paid by Warren Buffett’s secretary

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