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number 13  07.24.05
number 14  07.31.05
Health Care Costs as Percentage of
Gross National Product in 2003
Rates of Unionization in the
United States since 1975
number 15  08.06.05
Five states with the highest rates
of incarcerated African Americans
- number per 100,00 residents
0             5           10           15         20
In 2003, the United States spent 15.3
percent of its GDP on health care:
$1.7 trillion

Total national health expenditures
increased by 7.7 percent in 2003
over 2002 - four times the rate of
inflation

It is projected that the percentage
will reach 18.7 percent in 10 years.  
0        1000    2000    3000   4000
source: Viroqua Institute
%    5      10     15     20    25
source:  Economic Policy Institute
number 18  08.27.05
number 17  08.20.05
Presidential vacation days
source: Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development
personal savings rates in the
United States since 1980
number 16  08.13.05
Violent crime rates:
adjusted victimization rate
per 1000 persons over the
age of 12 years
70
50
30
10
1975        1985        1995         2003
Between 1994 and 2003 violent crime
rates declined about 55%.
100   200   300   400   500   600
Note: GHWBush and Carter are
single term statistics

Extrapolating GWBush's current
tally of vacation days over
two four year terms would
make him the most rested
president in history  at
approximately 700
vacation days

the average American- who
receives vacation as a
benefit- gets ten days of
vacation per year
%       2       4        6        8      10
savings rate : money left after all
expenditures as a percentage of
disposable personal income
source: Viroqua Institute
source: US Department of Commerce
source: US Department of Justice
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