Saturday, December 22, 2012

SHOCKING list of 2012 Economic Numbers

Sadly, most Americans still tend to doubt that we are heading into economic oblivion.  So if you have someone among your family and friends that believes that everything is going to be “just fine”, just show them these numbers.  They are a good summary of the problems that the U.S. economy is currently facing. 
The following are 75 economic numbers from 2012 that are almost too crazy to believe… 
#1 In December 2008, 31.6 million Americans were on food stamps.  Today, a new all-time record of 47.7 million Americans are on food stamps.  That number has increased by more than 50 percent over the past four years, and yet the mainstream media still has the gall to insist that “things are getting better”. 
#2 Back in the 1970s, about one out of every 50 Americans was on food stamps.  Today, about one out of every 6.5 Americans is on food stamps. 
#3 According to one calculation, the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of “Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.” 
#4 According to one recent survey, 55 percent of all Americans have received money from a safety net program run by the federal government at some point in their lives. 
#5 For the first time ever, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless.  That number has risen by 57 percent since the 2006-2007 school year. 
#6 Median household income in the U.S. has fallen for four consecutive years.  Overall, it has declined by over $4000 during that time span. 
#7 Families that have a head of household under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37 percent. 
#8 The percentage of working age Americans with a job has been under 59 percent for 39 months in a row. 
#9 In September 2009, during the depths of the last economic crisis, 58.7 percent of all working age Americans were employed.  In November 2012, 58.7 percent of all working age Americans were employed.  It is more then 3 years later, and we are in the exact same place. 
#10 When you total up all working age Americans that do not have a job in America today, it comes to more than 100 million.
There are 65 more statistics left on this list that are just as bad. Read them HERE along with links to the data that backs them up.

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