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Median household income* in 2001: $47,262
Fall in income of poorest fifth of families, 1980-2000: 5.5%
Fall in income of next fifth of families, 1980-2000: 1.1%
Rise in income of middle fifth of families, 1980-2000: 8.5%
Rise in income of richest 5% of families, 1980-2000: 50.4%
Rise in income of richest 5% of families, 1993-2000: 113.7%
(*The "median" income is the level at which half are below and half are above.)
Families living in poverty: 15%
Children in Poverty: 23%
Families at or below 200% of federal poverty level: 35%
TANF (welfare) average assistance per recipient: $270
(Federal poverty level for a family of three is $14,494. Try living on it.)
Hourly wage it takes to support a family of three in California: $20.89
Two-thirds of California workers make less than this.
Hourly wage it takes to support a family of three in Los Angeles: $20.60
Three quarters of workers in Los Angeles County make less than this.
Hourly wage it takes to support a family of three in the Bay Area: $25.99
Seventy per cent of Bay Area workers make less than this.
Minimum wage in California: $6.75
More than 1.5 million Californians work for $7.25 an hour or less.
What Californians pay each year to support the U.S. military:
$29,683,781,632
U.S. military spending is over 40% of the world total.
Unemployment in California has been over 6 percent since November 2001.
The number of jobless who have been out of work for more than 6 months has risen every month since September 2001.
The unemployment rate for black workers rose from 8% in September 2001 to 11% in September 2002 and is still going up. (That's one of the facts Proposition 54 would keep you from learning if it passed.)
Teen unemployment is nearly 20%.
But we're working more:
Married couple families increased their work year by an average of ten weeks over the last twenty years.
Single-parent families saw an addition of 7.6 weeks to their work year. Most of it has been during the 1990s.
Next to this information is a bar chart from the National Priorities Project. Captioned "Here's how much different income groups will save in 2003 from the 2001 federal tax cuts", it shows $17 billion going to the richest 3% and $4 billion to the poorest 30%.
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