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Lindacooks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 10:27 PM
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Statistics, 2000 and now...
By The Associated Press

Some statistics on American life as Election Day nears, compared with four years earlier.



FEDERAL BUDGET


Fiscal year 2000: $237 billion surplus. (record)


Fiscal year 2004: $413 billion deficit. (record)


UNEMPLOYMENT


2000: 4 percent.


September 2004: 5.4 percent.


EMPLOYED AMERICANS


November 2000: 132.3 million.


September 2004: 131.6 million.


DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE


Election Day 2000: 10,952.


Friday: 10,027. <snip>

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=15&u=/ap/snapshot_of_america_glance
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