some facts for US today

oldfairy

data source: US office of management and budget

oldfairy

"According to the Internal revenue Service, the Nation’s top 400 taxpayers made more than $263
million on average in 2006, but paid income taxes at the lowest rate in the 15 years in which these
data have been reported. In constant dollars, the average income of the top 400 taxpayers nearly
quadrupled since 1992"

oldfairy

"Since 2000, health insurance premiums have increased faster than worker’s earnings.
In 2007, 17 million insured Americans spent more than 10 percent of their salary on health
care, and 25 million Americans are underinsured, without enough coverage to keep costs in check.

Overall, health care is consuming an everincreasing amount of our Nation’s resources: in
1970, health care expenditures were 7 percent of GDP; now, it’s 16 percent; and at this rate will hit nearly 20 percent by 2017"

oldfairy

"across areas of the United States, but evidence suggests that the high-cost areas do not generate better health outcomes than the lower-cost ones. Academic researchers suggest that costs could be reduced by as much as 30 percent—or roughly $700 billion a year—while protecting the quality of health care delivered if the high-cost areas and hospitals adopted the practices of the low-cost ones. The bottom line is that the current path of rising health care costs is unsustainable." (short what?. )

oldfairy

"research has shown that there is a high return for investments made in high-quality, comprehensive programs supporting disadvantaged children, and their families, from birth. Some studies show that for every dollar invested, there is a $4 to $9 return to society in higher earnings, higher graduation and employment rates, less crime, decreased need for special education services. "(long what?:))

oldfairy

"A 2004 report by the National Center for Education Statistics found that 8.5 percent of public schools have exceeded their capacity; in almost one out of five schools, teachers have to teach in common areas such as gyms and cafeterias; and one in four schools report that teachers do not have their own classrooms in which to teach."
(what do you want to buy? Desk? :))

jsl

There are some structural change in the society which have to be taken into account in order to interpret these results.

oldfairy

"Because of deliberate policy decisions, balance sheets did not accurately reflect the risks that
firms were taking; large pools of capital were left unregulated while more and more investors were exposed to them; and conflicts of interest compromised the credit rating agencies upon which investors relied."

xxtrader

THANX

oldfairy

"Most egregiously, we see this irresponsibility in the tens of thousands of Federal contractors and Medicare service providers who make money off of the Government, but fail to pay all their taxes—costing us billions."

oldfairy

Most stimulus money will go to

1. EPA
2.National Aeronautics and Space Administration
3. Social Security Administration
4. Climate Policy

peachseed

"research has shown that there is a high return for investments made in high-quality, comprehensive programs supporting disadvantaged children, and their families, from birth. Some studies show that f ...
oldfairy 发表于 2009-3-16 11:02

这些programs是什么啊？long what???

Good post, btw!!

oldfairy

"To provide Americans a 21st Century transportation system, the Administration proposes a $1 billion-a-year high-speed rail State grant program, in addition to the $8 billion provided in the recovery Act."

oldfairy

'The 2010 Budget supports moving from a ground-based radar surveillance system to a more
accurate satellite-based surveillance system; development of more efficient routes through the airspace; and improvements in aviation weather information.(which company?)"

oldfairy

" in addition to the $6
billion provided in the recovery Act. With this historic increase, the programs will fund over 1,000 clean water and nearly 700 drinking water projects annually based on average project costs. In addition, the recovery Act will support over 1,300 new wastewater projects and over 700 new drinking water SrF projects."--Tetra Tech

oldfairy

"Advances the development of Low-Carbon Coal Technologies. The Budget supports
Carbon Capture and Storage technology, and along with the $3.4 billion provided in the recovery Act for low-carbon emission coal power and industrial projects, these funds will help allow the use of our extensive domestic coal resource while reducing the impacts on climate change."---there is one US utility company mastered the skills, which is the only one in the world. Do the homework by yourself.

revolver

Ding!

菜鸟

Thanks very much

笨妞妞

oldfairy

some information points to the "climate", which related with clean and energy, this will benefits some companies handing "carbon capture", "coal gasification" and "environmental companies focusing on AIR"

many people here focus on Solar, however, solar is a wide range. If you studied some presentations given by the new department of energy head in the past, you might notice that some "energy saving" structure or even "AC" could save even more energy than using Solar Panel.