STREETANOMICS #2
By Simon J Black
Published: 06/15/2008
26 – percentage of Americans who believed their country was divided into “haves” and “have-nots” in 1988
48 – percentage of Americans who believe it is today
$500 billion – total cost of the war in Iraq thus far
$275 million – daily cost to the American taxpayers of the war in Iraq
4067 – number of American soldiers killed in Iraq
0 – number who are children of US senators
$499 billion – United States military budget in 2007.
$200 billion – estimated yearly cost of eradicating global poverty.
(Sources: Joseph Stiglitz The Trillion Dollar War WW Norton, 2008; Jeffrey Sachs The End of Poverty Penguin, 2005)
Published in POUND July/Aug