According to the US Census Bureau, as of July 2009 the US population stood at 307,006,550 people.
Wikipedia says the US population numbers 310,722,000.
It's generally accepted that the true unemployed/underemployed rate is running as high as 25%...
That means there are approximately 77,500,000 people in this country who are out of work, or not working sufficiently to meet their needs, or who have given up looking for work.
77 MILLION people (and their partners, families, communities) losing, or in danger of losing, their homes, not having enough food, without medical care, no transport... millions of children living with day-to-day survival issues...
Just to give you a sense of the enormity of that number - that's the population of 3.5 New Zealands, or one-and-a-bit United Kingdoms, or two Kenyas...
In the richest country on the planet... and that's why we need to keep giving tax cuts to the rich and not fund education and health care fully...
Make sense to you??? No, not to me either...
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