[Peace] Re: [Announce] Unity March this Saturday

[Brussel Morton K.]

The numbers I've seen for the income of the top 10% of our population  
is about $150,000 in 2008 (This probably refers to household income  
rather than individual income). In 2006, about 20% of households  
earned $100,000 or more.   --mkb

On Sep 30, 2009, at 1:39 PM, John W. wrote:

>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Brian Dolinar  
> <briandolinar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The 6th annual Unity March is this Saturday, Oct. 3.
> It will be kicking off from the Champaign City Building, traveling  
> down University Ave, and ending with a rally at the Champaign County  
> courthouse.
> There will be a reception at the Independent Media Center.
>
> This year's march is addressing the current economic crisis.
> We are collecting donations for the Safe Haven community (blankets  
> and bedding).
>
> Rain or shine, we will march.
> We can weather this storm together.
>
> Peace, BD
>
> In the last year, Champaign-Urbana’s unemployment rate increased two  
> percentage points
> from 4.9 percent in March 2008 to 6.9 percent in March 2009,  
> according to data released by the Illinois Department of Employment  
> Security.
>
> Nationwide, new figures show that in 2008, the top ten percent of  
> Americans earned 11.4 times more than those living below the poverty  
> line.
>
> This last sentence HAS to be a misprint.  If the income of those  
> living below the poverty line averaged, for the sake of round  
> numbers, $10,000/year, then the average income of the top ten  
> percent of Americans would be only $114,000/year.  That seems  
> awfully low to me, for the top ten percent.
>
> John Wason
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