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water_watcher
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Give credit where credit is due
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3/8/2011 3:57:21 PM (updated 3/8/2011 3:57:41 PM)
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I wish the numbers were better, but figures do not lie. Sorry if the formatting is off, but you can figure it out. Very interesting.
2008 today change
Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.41 86.3%
Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43.48 $99.02 127.7%
Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) $38.74 $91.38 135.9%
Gold: London (per troy oz.) $853.25 $1,369.50 60.5%
Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL $3.56 $6.33 78.1%
Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL $9.66 $13.75 42.3%
Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. fob $13.37 $35.39 164.7%
Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall 7.6% 9.4% 23.7%
Unemployment rate, blacks 12.6% 15.8% 25.4%
Number of unemployed 11,616,000 14,485,000 24.7%
Number of fed. employees, ex. military 2,779,000 2,840,000 2.2%
Real median household income $50,112 $49,777 -0.7%
Number of food stamp recipients 31,983,716 43,200,878 35.1%
Number of unemployment benefit recipients 7,526,598 9,193,838 22.2%
Number of long-term unemployed 2,600,000 6,400,000 146.2%
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