Are you better off?
Inequality and Class Stratification in America

People Looking for Work Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last updated March 4th, 2011. For further reading see Job Losses Reach 34 Year High Unemployment hits 4-Year High That Rosy Unemployment Rate Understanding the Severity of the Current Labor Slump

New Jobs Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last updated March 4th, 2011. For further reading see Obama stimulus saves/creates 650k jobs Lost Decade. Zero Private Sector Jobs Created 1999-2009 Worst Recession since Great Depression Easing Most Jobs Lost in 34 Years. Are the Bush 2003 Tax Cuts Creating Jobs? Bush ends Benefits for Millions of Poor and Unemployed How Clinton did it. The Clinton Presidential Center

	Equity Market
	Source: Dow Jones. Last updated March 4th, 2011. For further reading see March 24th, 2009, the Obama Rally Begins. Who is better for the Stock Market, Democrats or Republicans? Surprise: Democrats Better for Rallies Which Party in the White House Means Good Times for Investors? Bush, Jr., Worse than Herbert Hoover 50 Years of Market Swings

	Budget Deficit
	Source: The Gross National Debt . Last updated October 15th, 2010. For further reading see: TARP repayment lowers federal loss by $200 billion. Deficit 1.2 Trillion as Obama Takes Office Largest Budget Deficit Ever Public Debt Exceeds 9 Trillion for First time. The Idea of the Tax Cut that Pays for Itself is one of the Worst Ideas in Economics Bush Has Borrowed More from Foreigners than All Previous Presidents Combined Congressional Budget Office Sees 2005 Deficit at 317 Billion 2004 Budget Understates Spending by 87 Billion The Amazing Dissappearing Budget Fiscal Health Worse than Budget Implies

	Economic Growth
	GDP Source: The Federal Reserve Deflator Source: The Federal Reserve Recession Data Source: National Bureau of Economic Research Last updated December 22nd, 2010. For further reading see The middle class is sharing less and less in the benefits they are creating Income Inequality: Too Big to Ignore Four Deformations of the Apocalypse. Deflating the Middle Class. Striking it Richer. Share of Top 10% highest since records kept. Trickle-Down R.I.P. Re-elect a Republican, get a Banking Crisis Republican Administrations create Inequality For 30 years Republicans have lied about the role of government Fourth Quarter 2008 worst percentage contraction since 1982 US Officially in Recession as of 12 2007 Work Harder, take home less The Middle Class on the Edge The Economic Legacy of George W. Bush Chart of Before and After Bush; the state of the nation's economic health Deficits will Constrain new President Top 1% Share Highest Since 1929 Income Distribution The Disappearing Middle Class The Collapse of the Middle Class Bush's War on the Poor Bush blames his 1st Recesson on Clinton

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