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Enrollment in technical education soared from 9.6 million students in 1999 to 15.1 million in 2004.

Christian Science Monitor

College tuition and fees are up 290% in the past 20 years.

USA Today

52% of all parents say that their kids are going to be worse off than they are.

AlterNet

Workers in offices with carpeting are 1.73 times more likely to develop asthma.

Reuters

The average income for the top 1% of American taxpaying households was $940,000 in 2004.

New York Times

15% of companies offer the option of selling time, in which employees trade paid vacation for money.

Chicago Tribune

Rail industry expects to hire 80,000 new workers over the next 6 years.

Detroit Free Press

A weight increase of 64 pounds for white women was associated with 9% lower wages.

New York Times

Almost 1 in 5 companies allows pets in the workplace.

The Ledger

Almost 3/4 of Americans believe inequality is a major issue.

Bloomberg

16% of corporate officers at Fortune 500 companies are women.

New York Times

Goldman Sachs workers probably earned the best hourly wages in the world: an average of about $200 per hour.

New York Times

The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee paid sick days for all workers.

Stateline.org

Pregnancy-discrimination complaints rose 14% between 2000 and 2005.

Charlotte Observer

80% of voters--and 65% of Republican voters--believe America's workers deserve a raise.

Washington Post

Employees who were union activists or organizers had a 15% to 20% chance of being fired in 2005.

Kansas City Star

Telecommuters are less likely to get promoted than peers who head into the office every day.

Los Angeles Times

1 in 6 Americans reports having been bullied at work.

San Francisco Chronicle

In California alone, investments in clean technology could create up to 114,000 new jobs by 2010.

Tom Paine

Union membership dropped to 12% of U.S. workers last year, extending a steady decline from the 1950s when more than 1/3 belonged to unions.

Washington Post

Immigrants with the lightest skin earned an average of 8% to 15% more than similar immigrants with much darker skin.

San Francisco Chronicle

The United States lags far behind all wealthy countries with regard to family-oriented workplace policies such as maternity leave, paid sick days and support for breast-feeding.

Houston Chronicle

25.3% of women in two-income marriages bring home the bigger paycheck, up from 17.8% in 1987.

Los Angeles Times

U.S. Census Bureau: 2005 median income for white households was $48,554, while that of black households was only $30,858.

Alternet

More workers filed discrimination complaints with the EEOC last year than in each of the three previous years.

Kansas City Star

43% of U.S. workers admit to having dated a co-worker

Los Angeles Times

Men file 14% of sexual harassment cases

Sun Herald

At the current rate of change, it could take women 47 years to reach parity with men as corporate officers of Fortune 500 companies.

Houston Chronicle

African-American males only earn $38,478 compared with $55,354 for white males with equal education.

North Jersey Online

Americans are donating $225 billion a year in unpaid work to people who already earn far more than they do.

Tom Paine

If you worked 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, you would earn $13,624.

Jonathan Tasini, Huffington Post

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