Charles Dharapak-Pool/Getty Images President Barack Obama
In tonight's Accompaniment of the Union speech, we're acceptable to apprehend a lot about the nation's continuing accretion from the Great Recession, and about President Obama's assurance to run an controlling end-run around obstructionist Republicans in adjustment to bang the abridgement into a college gear.
But as the nation pauses for this anniversary moment of absorption on our budgetary and amusing health, too abounding arch indicators get abbreviate shrift. Here are 27 statistics – on unemployment, inequality, the biologic war, aegis spending, altitude change and added – that accentuate the afflicted absoluteness of America in 2014:
1. New assets generated back 2009 that has gone to the top 1 percent: 95 percent
2. Financial abundance controlled by the basal 60 percent of all Americans: 2.3 percent
3. Record accumulated abundance of the top 400 richest Americans: $2,000,000,000,000
4. Real abatement in average common incomes back 1999: $5,000
5. Percentage of Hispanic and African-American accouchement active in poverty, respectively: 33.8 percent; 36.7 percent
6. Bulk that aliment stamps will be cut in 2014: $5 billion
7. Federal minimum wage: $7.25
8. What the minimum allowance would be if it had kept clip with assets in artisan abundance back 1968: $21.72
9. Number of U.S. workers active at or beneath minimum wage: 3.6 million – the abreast agnate of the citizenry of Los Angeles.
10.Stealth aborigine subsidy to the fast-food industry, paid out as safety-net allowances to McWorkers earning abjection wages: $7 billion
11. Global carbon dioxide levels abstinent in locations per million: 397
12. Maximum absorption of the greenhouse gas that scientists account sustainable: 350
13. Years back the about-face of this aeon that accept ranked a part of the warmest 15 on record: All 13
14. Rank of 2013 on that account of the warmest years on record: Number Four
15. U.S. aegis spending as of 2012: $682 billion
16. Dollar bulk by which that surpassed our abutting believable aggressive rival, China: $516 billion
17. Federal arrears endure year: $680 billion
18. Number of Americans blank from voting for abomination convictions: 5.9 million
19. Share of those blank voters who are African-American: 37 percent
20. Number of Americans arrested annually for marijuana possession: 658,000
21. Total confined U.S. population: 2.3 million
22. Total citizenry on probation/parole: 4.8 million
23. States that could be absolutely abounding by all of the Americans beneath correctional supervision: Nevada and Kentucky
24. Official unemployment rate: 6.7 percent
25. Alternate amount including Americans who've accustomed up searching for work, or accept alone been able to defended part-time employment: 13.1 percent
26. Number of jobs the United States is still down from 2008 application peak: 1.69 million
27. Number of Americans who were cut off from abiding unemployment allowances at the about-face of the year: 1.3 million
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