{"id":3955,"date":"2006-12-27T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T21:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2006-12-27T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T05:36:16","slug":"2006-injustice-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3955","title":{"rendered":"2006 Injustice Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Below is a sampling of statistics and fun comparisons contained within the newly released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drummajorinstitute.org\/library\/article.php?ID=6529\">2006 Injustice Index<\/a>, which is part of the The Drum Major Institute For Public Policy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drummajorinstitute.org\/library\/report.php?ID=31\">2006 Year in Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Wages that an average CEO earns before lunchtime: more than a full-time minimum wage worker makes in a year<\/p>\n<p>Number of workers who would directly benefit from an increase in the minimum wage: 5.6 million<\/p>\n<p>Number of very large estates that would directly benefit from a reduction in the estate tax: 8,200<\/p>\n<p>Number of households using credit to cover basic living expenses: 7 in 10<\/p>\n<p>Total Wal-Mart received in government subsidies, sometimes called &#8220;corporate welfare&#8221;\u009d by activists, in 2005: $3.75 billion <\/p>\n<p>Projected total in Christmas bonuses that investment banks in New York City will pay out in 2006: $23.9 billion <\/p>\n<p>Estimated additional amount U.S. workers would receive annually if all employers obeyed workplace laws: $19 billion<\/p><\/div>\n<p>See more fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drummajorinstitute.org\/library\/article.php?ID=6529\">stats<\/a> and the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drummajorinstitute.org\/library\/report.php?ID=31\">Year in Review<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drummajorinstitute.org\/home.php\">Drum Major Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer Below is a sampling of statistics and fun comparisons contained within the newly released 2006 Injustice Index, which is part of the The Drum Major Institute For Public Policy&#8217;s 2006 Year in Review: Wages that an average CEO earns before lunchtime: more than a full-time minimum wage worker makes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-middle-class","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}