[Mb-hair] just the facts: US Economy and US National Security
Mha Atma Khalsa
drmhaatma at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 15 15:52:52 PST 2005
This is a long list but you will find it worthwhile to read it all...and to save for future use........
US Economy Facts
1) US corporate layoffs were up 22% in November and 964,232 jobs were cut this year, which was up 3.6% from the year-to-date total a year ago.
2) Corporate CEOs who sent jobs overseas last year received an average pay increase of 46%.
3) Citigroup's CEO was paid $111,000. a day in 2004
4) Delta Airlines gave its outgoing CEO a $16 million retirement package while announcing the layoff of 7,000 workers.
5) Pay for corporate CEOs increased 15% last year while pay for workers increased 4%.
6) Delphi Corporation paid its CEO $5,959,138. and plans to lay off 6,000 workers.
7) The number of US billionaires rose last year from 262 to 313 while 1.3 million more Americans fell below the poverty line.
8) Bank of America paid its CEO $20 million last year and announced it will cut 4,500 jobs.
9) Ousted CEO of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines, negotiated a life-long pension of $1.3 million per year.
10) Tiffany & Co. reported a 12% increase in holiday sales as the Agriculture Dept. reported a 26% increase of American families going hungry.
11) Combat pay for our soldiers in Iraq is $7.50 a day.
12) The Senate rejected attempts to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour for the first time in 8 years, while a study showed that if the minimum wage had increased at the same rate as corporate CEO pay since 1990, it would now be $22.50 an hour.
13) Viacom paid its top 3 execs. $160 million in 2004. Real wages in 2004 fell at the fastest rate in 14 years.
14) Hewlett-Packard welcomed a new chief information officer with a pay package worth at least $15.3 million, including a $2.2 million signing bonus & a $1 million "relocation" allowance. The CEO who was fired from H-P received a $21.4 million severance package. H-P announced it will layoff 14,500 workers to "save costs."
15) Kimberly-Clark tripled its CEO's bonus to $2.4 million, and announced it will lay off 6,000 workers.
16) United Health, Gillette, 3M, Home Depot, Pfizer, Lilly, Electronic Data System, and Hormel gave CEOs pay increases that ranged from 12% to 86%, while wage increases for average workers lagged behind the 2.7% inflation rate of 2004.
17) The wealth of the 400 richest Americans increased 13% last year while the average earning for workers increased 2.7%.
18) The average American CEO earned 431 times the pay of the average worker last year, up from 301 times the pay of the average worker in 2004.
19) Under Bush's tax cuts, the 400 taxpayers with the highest incomes now pay income, Medicare and Social Security taxes at the same rate as people making $50,000 to $75,000. Those earning more than $10 million a year now pay a lesser share of their income in these taxes than those making $100,000 to $200,000.
20) Senate Republicans voted down an amendment to authorize an investigation into charges of war profiteering by Halliburton and other companies.
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National Security Facts (see references at the end)
Weekly National Security Index
December 12, 2005
Iraq
Approximate number of U.S. troops currently in Iraq: 161,000
Percent of coalition forces contributed by the U.S. 88
Weeks since the Pentagon developed a plan to draw down U.S. forces in Iraq to roughly 40,000 by mid-2005: 112
Approximate amount appropriated by Congress for Iraq operations so far: $218 billion
Approximate amount spent by the U.S. in World War I:
$205 billion
Approximate amount spent in Iraq by the U.S. last week:
$1.5 billion
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) found: 0
Number of U.S. service members killed in Iraq: 2,144
Number killed since the President announced the end of major combat: 2,005
Number reported wounded by the Defense Department: 15,955
Approximate number of medical evacuations of U.S. military personnel performed since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom: 55,000
Number of National Guard soldiers killed in Iraq through December 3, 2005: 324
Number of National Guard soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War: 97
Number of Iraqi military and police killed since training began (June 2003): 3,748
Estimated number of insurgents in Iraq (November 2003): 5,000
Estimated number of insurgents in Iraq (October 2005): 20,000
Estimated number of 88 Iraqi military battalions that are capable of operating independently: 1
Total amount of taxpayers' money spent by Halliburton that the Defense Contract Audit Agency has deemed either excessive or insufficiently documented: $1.47 billion
Total number of nations contributing troops to Iraq as part of President Bush's "coalition of the willing" at some point during the war: 37
Number of these nations that either have withdrawn or plan to withdraw their troops from the coalition: 14
Average size of troop contributions by nations with troops currently deployed to Iraq, excluding the United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, and Italy: 186
Amount of the $13.6 billion pledged by the international community for Iraq's reconstruction that has been dispersed: $2.9 billion
Rank of September 2005 among months with the highest number of multiple-fatality bombings: 1
Rank of November 2005: 2
Civilian casualties in Iraq since January 2004, as estimated by the Department of Defense: 25,902
War on Terrorism
Days since September 11, 2001 that Osama bin Laden has remained uncaptured: 1,551
Days after bombing Pearl Harbor that Japan surrendered to U.S. forces: 1,365
Number of global terrorist attacks reported by the State Department in 2004: 651
Number of attacks reported by the State Department in 2003: 175
Total number of "worldwide incidents" registered by the National Counterterrorism Center's Worldwide Incident Tracking System so far in 2005: 2,269
Number of victims wounded or killed by these incidents: 6,962
Estimated number of al Qaeda members around the world: 50,000
Rank of Iraq among all nations as a training ground for terrorists: 1
Chances of a WMD attack in the next ten years, according to leading arms experts: 70 percent
Number of discovered cases of potential illicit smuggling of nuclear or radiological material out of the former Soviet Union last year: 200
Percent of former Soviet nuclear material stockpiles secured under Nunn-Lugar counterproliferation programs: 26
Number of terrorist suspects the Bush Administration claims have been convicted since September 11, 2001: 200
Number who have actually been convicted: 39
Total hours of wiretap recordings related to counterterrorism that the FBI has failed to review: 8,000
Average time the FBI requires to hire contract linguists to review the tapes: 16 months
U.S. Military Personnel
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Readiness/Strain
Total National Guard and Reserve personnel currently deployed: 144,688
Percentage of the Army's Third Infantry Division currently serving a second tour in Iraq: 50
Number of Marine battalions that are currently serving or preparing to serve their third combat tour in Iraq: 5
Of the 333 Army National Guard infantry, military police, armor, and Special Forces units, the number currently combat-ready without reinforcements: 6
Percent of Army Reserve currently ineligible for deployment because of recent deployments, lack of training, medical reasons, etc.: 84
Value of total Reserve Component equipment shortage, beginning Fiscal Year 2005: $15.21 billion
Army National Guard equipment shortage, as a percentage of the total: 76.7
Percentage of non-deployed Army National Guard Units that reported having the minimum amount of equipment they would need to deploy in October 2002: 87
Percentage of non-deployed Army National Guard Units that reported having the minimum amount of equipment they would need to deploy in May 2005: 59
Cost to reconstitute equipment lost by the Marine Corps in Iraq: $12.8 billion·
Recruiting and Retention
Number of recruits by which the Army missed its Fiscal Year 2005 recruiting goal: 6,627
Number of the six Reserve Components that fell short of their Fiscal Year 2005 recruiting goals: 4
Total number of recruits by which the six Reserve Components fell short of their cumulative Fiscal Year 2005 recruiting goal: 18,864
Year in which the Army last experienced a recruiting shortfall as large as the Fiscal Year 2005 shortfall: 1979
Number of months the Marine Corps missed its recruiting goals between January and April 2005: 4
Number of months the Marine Corps missed its recruiting goals in ten years before January 2005: 0
Prior to 2004, years since the Army National Guard last missed its annual recruiting goal: 11
Number of the last 13 months for which the Army National Guard has missed its recruiting goals: 12
Rate of loss of Army captains and lieutenants, the Army's junior officers, in 2004: 8.5
Average rate of loss of Army captains and lieutenants, 1996-2004: 7.3
Resignation requests submitted by Army Reserve Officers in 2001: 15
Resignation requests submitted by Army Reserve Officers, September 2003-September 2004: 370
Percent of Army enlisted special operations personnel leaving the force in 2004: 13
Percent of Army enlisted special operations personnel leaving in 2003: 6
Shortage of Captains, who serve as unit-level leaders, in the Army Reserve: 52 percent
Change in national enrollment for the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) since 2002: -14 percent
Morale
Percent of troops in Iraq reporting that their unit's morale is "low" or "very low": 54
Increase in the divorce rate among Army officers since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom: 317 percent
Approximate number of veterans returning from Iraq or Afghanistan diagnosed with some sort of mental disorder: 24,000
North Korea
Estimated minimum number of nuclear weapons likely produced by North Korea during the Bush Administration: 4-6
Estimated number produced by North Korea from 1953 to 2000: 1-2
Potential number of nuclear weapons North Korea could possess by next year if Six-Party Talks continue to produce no lasting disarmament agreement: 11
Darfur
Estimated number of conflict-related deaths per day in Darfur, Sudan: 500
Estimated number since President Bush took office: 400,000
Days since Secretary of State Powell first called the situation "genocide": 459
Number of days after the Senate passed the Darfur Accountability Act as an amendment to H.R. 1268 that the Administration wrote a letter pressuring House Republicans (successfully) to remove it from the final bill: 1
Number of Darfuris that were expected to require food assistance during the August-October "hunger season": 3.5 million
Conflict-affected persons in Darfur and Eastern Chad: 3.4 million
Number of Darfuris displaced by the conflict (internally displaced persons and refugees): 2 million
Total population of the Darfur region: 6 million
Homeland Security
Of 14 recommendations by the 9/11 Commission related to homeland security and emergency preparedness/response, number for which 9/11 Commissioners have judged progress on implementation to be "minimal" or "unsatisfactory": 11
Factor by which passengers on mass transit systems exceed passengers on airlines: 16
Funding per passenger the Bush Administration has spent to secure mass transit systems since September 11, 2001: $0.01
Cost of security upgrades needed to protect rail and transit systems as estimated by U.S. transit authorities: $6 billion
Amount of funding designated specifically for rail and transit security in President Bush's budget: $0
Total amount of funding added to the Fiscal Year 2006 Homeland Security Appropriations bill for rail security in the wake of the July 7 London Bombings: $0
Number of provisions in federal law requiring chemical facilities to establish safeguards against a terrorist attack: 0
Number of chemical facilities at which a terrorist strike could threaten the lives of over 1 million people: 123
Percent of cargo arriving at U.S. ports inspected for WMD: <1
Percent of "high-risk" cargo inspected: 17.5
Estimated economic impact of a terrorist attack to a U.S. port: $1 trillion
Percent of Transportation Security Administration Fiscal Year 2005 budget allocated for port security grants: 2.8
Deadline for meeting port security standards set by the Maritime Transportation Security Act: 2004
Year in which MTSA port security standards will be met if port security funding levels remain constant: 2050
Ratio of federal air security screeners to federal surface transportation (rail and public transit) security screeners: 450:1
Homeland security grant dollars per capita awarded to the U.S. Virgin Islands in Fiscal Year 2004: $104.35
Homeland security grant dollars per capita awarded to California in Fiscal Year 2004: $4.97
Chance that a non-Mexican illegal immigrant apprehended while trying to cross into the United States along the southwestern border will be released because of lack of resources: 80
Veterans
Approximate number of Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom veterans discharged from service, through June 2005: 393,000
Number of these veterans seeking health care from VA hospitals, through October 2005: 119,247
Approximate number of these veterans diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or other mental ailments: 24,000
According to the Army Surgeon General, percent of troops returning from the Iraq war that have developed stress-related mental health problems: 30
Total funding requested specifically to meet the needs of Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom veterans in the President's 2006 budget: $0
Total Compensation and Pension Claims Backlog: 527,964
Number of these claims pending for more than 6 months: 123,364
Percent change in pending claims from the end of Fiscal Year 2003 to March 2005: +33
Gap between veterans' needs and President Bush's 2006 budget proposal: $3.5 billion
Percent increase needed each year just to maintain existing programs in the face of medical inflation and other rising costs: 13-14
Percent increase in veterans health care funding requested in President Bush?s 2006 Budget Proposal: 0.4
Fiscal Year 2005 budget shortfall announced by the VA:
$1.27 billion
Number of weeks prior to the VA's budget shortfall announcement that VA Secretary Nicholson told Congress, "I can assure you that VA does not need emergency supplemental funds in FY 2005": 11
Total funding shortfall for Fiscal Years 2005 and 2006 now identified by the Bush Administration: $3 billion
Percentage rise in the number of veterans collecting unemployment insurance since August 2002: 96
Approximate number of veterans who experience homelessness during a given year: 500,000
Democracy and Development
Number of Botswanan AIDS patients the Bush Administration claims are receiving treatment because of U.S. assistance: 32,839
Number of Botswanan AIDS patients the Botswanan government says are receiving treatment because of U.S. assistance: 0
Total amount appropriated to the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) so far: $2.48 billion
Total aid distributed by the MCA so far: $0
Average amount per year to be distributed through the five compact agreements signed so far: $37.7 million
Annual amount President Bush promised for the MCA: $5 billion
Average amount requested in President Bush's annual budgets since he proposed the MCA: $2.3 billion
Number of the world's ten poorest nations with whom the United States has signed an MCA compact: 0
Number of the world's 40 poorest nations with whom the United States has signed an MCA compact: 1
Rank of U.S. among 21 developed nations in foreign assistance spending measured as a percentage of Gross National Product: 20
Number of children dying each day from preventable diseases: 27,000
Percentage of the world's population living on less than $2 per day: 50
Cut in funding for foreign development assistance proposed in President Bush's budget: $345 million
Statistics of the Week
Afghanistan
Percent of the world's opium supplied by Afghanistan 87
Afghanistan's drug economy, as a percentage of its legal GDP 52
Estimated gross profit for Afghan opium traffickers last year:
$2.14 billion
Percentage increase in cultivation in the Nimroz province over last year: 1370
Percentage increase in cultivation in the Kandahar province: 162
Percentage decrease in overall opium cultivation in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2005: 21
Portion of the world's cannabis supply produced in Afghanistan 1/3
SOURCES
Iraq
1. Los Angeles Times, 10/28/05
2. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index reports that there were approximately 22,000 non-U.S., non-Iraqi troops in Iraq as of September 2005. (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
3. As of December 12, 2005. Washington Post, 10/19/03
4. House Budget Committee Minority Staff (http://www.house.gov/budget_democrats/analyses/06iraq_war_cost_update.pdf)
5. Christian Science Monitor, 8/29/05
6. Congressional Research Service RL 33110 reports an average monthly spending rate of $5.9 billion in Iraq. (http://www.congress.gov/erp/rl/pdf/RL33110.pdf)
7. Iraqi Survey Group
8. DoD Casualty Report (http://www.dod.gov/news/casualty.pdf) December 12, 2005
9. DoD Casualty Report (http://www.dod.gov/news/casualty.pdf) December 12, 2005
10. DoD Casualty Report (http://www.dod.gov/news/casualty.pdf) December 12, 2005
11. DoD News Release, 5/11/05 (http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2005/20050511_1025.html)
12. Brookings Institution Iraq Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
13. New York Daily News, 7/5/05
14. As of December 8, 2005. Brookings Institution Iraq Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
15. Brookings Institution Iraq Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
16. Knight Ridder News Service, 11/5/05
17. Washington Post, 9/30/05
18. Boston Globe, 6/28/05
19. GlobalSecurity.Org (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm)
20. GlobalSecurity.Org (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm)
21. CRS RL32105 (http://www.congress.gov/erp/rl/pdf/RL32105.pdf)
22. ?Iraqi Economic Reconstruction and Development,? CSIS, 9/14/05 (http://www.csis.org/burke/050914_reconstruction.pdf)
23. Brookings Institution Iraq Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
24. Brookings Institution Iraq Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
25. New York Times, 10/30/05
Terrorism
1. As of December 12, 2005
2. Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945
3. State Department press briefing, 4/27/05
4. State Department press briefing, 4/27/05
5. National Counterterrorism Center, Worldwide Incident Tracking System, accessed 12/6/05.
6. National Counterterrorism Center, Worldwide Incident Tracking System, accessed 12/6/05.
7. National Counterterrorism Center (http://tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=6)
8. Washington Post, 1/14/05
9. CNN.com, 6/22/05
10. House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology hearing, 6/21/05
11. Securing the Bomb 2005, May 2005 (http://www.nti.org/e_research/report_cnwmupdate2005execsum.pdf)
12. Washington Post, 6/12/05
13. Washington Post, 6/12/05
14. Washington Post, 7/28/05
15. Washington Post, 7/28/05
U.S. Military Personnel
Readiness/Strain
1. As of December 7, 2005. DoD Press Resources (http://www.dod.gov/news/).
2. Brookings Institution Iraq Index (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf)
3. USA Today, 7/29/05
4. Detroit Free Press, 6/13/05
5. GAO-05-660 (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05660.pdf)
6. National Guard and Reserve Equipment Report for Fiscal Year 2006 (http://www.defenselink.mil/ra/documents/annualreports/fy2006NGREREquipment.PDF)
7. National Guard and Reserve Equipment Report for Fiscal Year 2006 (http://www.defenselink.mil/ra/documents/annualreports/fy2006NGREREquipment.PDF)
8. GAO-06-170T (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06170t.pdf)
9. GAO-06-170T (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06170t.pdf)
10. Marine Corps Times, 11/14/05
Recruiting and Retention
1. Defense Department Press Release (http://www.dod.gov/releases/2005/nr20051011-4881.html)
2. Defense Department Press Release (http://www.dod.gov/releases/2005/nr20051011-4881.html)
3. Defense Department Press Release (http://www.dod.gov/releases/2005/nr20051011-4881.html)
4. New York Times, 9/30/05
5. San Diego Union-Tribune, 5/27/05 (http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050527/news_1n27recruit.html)
6. San Diego Union-Tribune, 5/27/05 (http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050527/news_1n27recruit.html)
7. Washington Times, 9/23/04 (http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040923-114738-3289r.htm)
8. Reuters, 7/11/05; Department of Defense press release, 8/10/05 (05 http://www.dod.gov/releases/2005/nr20050810-4393.html); Department of Defense press releases, 9/12/05, 10/11/05, 11/10/05, 12/12/05
9. Baltimore Sun, 7/28/05
10. Baltimore Sun, 7/28/05
11. Seattle Times, 12/9/04 (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002113845_officershortage09m.html)
12. Seattle Times, 12/9/04 (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002113845_officershortage09m.html)
13. Winston-Salem Journal, 7/30/05
14. Winston-Salem Journal, 7/30/05
15. GAO-05-660 (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05660.pdf)
16. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 10/31/05
Morale
1. Washington Post, 7/21/05
2. Houston Chronicle, 6/30/05
3. Testimony of VA Deputy Undersecretary Michael Kussman, House Armed Services Committee hearing, 7/26/05
North Korea
1. Congressional Research Service IB91141
2. Congressional Research Service IB91141
3. Special Report, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 4/28/05 (http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/pdf/050428.pdf)
Darfur
1. Coalition for International Justice, 4/21/05 (http://www.cij.org/pdf/Press_Release_CIJ_Mortality_Study_April_21_2005.pdf)
2. Coalition for International Justice, 4/21/05 (http://www.cij.org/pdf/Press_Release_CIJ_Mortality_Study_April_21_2005.pdf)
3. Through December 12, 2005. Powell, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, 9/9/04.
4. American Prospect, 4/29/05 (http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9622)
5. U.N. World Food Program press release, 6/17/05
6. USAID fact sheet, 9/30/05 (http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/sudan/pdf/082605_fs48.pdf)
7. USAID fact sheet, 9/30/05 (http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/sudan/pdf/082605_fs48.pdf)
8. U.S. State Department (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/36028.htm)
Homeland Security
1. 9/11 Public Discourse Project, 9/14/05
1. USA Today, 7/7/05
2. USA Today, 7/7/05
3. USA Today, 7/7/05
4. Senate Conference Report 109-83
5. H.R. 2360
6. Senator John Corzine, Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, 4/27/05 (http://hsgac.senate.gov/_files/CorzineHSGACtestimony.pdf)
7. Washington Post, 12/31/04
8. Associated Press, 5/25/05
9. Associated Press, 5/25/05
10. Protecting the American Homeland: A Preliminary Analysis, Brookings Institution, May 2002
11. ?What Does Homeland Security Spending Buy?? American Enterprise Institute (AEI), April 2005 (http://www.aei.org/docLib/20050408_wp107.pdf)
12. New Strategies to Protect America: Safer Ports for a More Secure Economy, Center for American Progress, 6/15/05 ( http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=815195)
13. New Strategies to Protect America: Safer Ports for a More Secure Economy, Center for American Progress, 6/15/05 (http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=815195)
14. New Strategies to Protect America: Putting Rail Security on the Right Track, Center for American Progress, 4/21/05 (
http://www.americanprogress.org/atf/cf/{E9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03}/Rail%20Security%20Printer%20Final.pdf)
15. ?What Does Homeland Security Spending Buy?? AEI, April 2005 (http://www.aei.org/docLib/20050408_wp107.pdf)
16. ?What Does Homeland Security Spending Buy?? AEI, April 2005 (http://www.aei.org/docLib/20050408_wp107.pdf)
17. Secretary Michael Chertoff, testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, 10/18/05
Veterans
1. Testimony of Michael Kussman before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, 7/26/05 (http://www.house.gov/hasc/schedules/Kussman72605.pdf)
2. Salon.com, 12/10/05
3. Testimony of Michael Kussman before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, 7/26/05 (http://www.house.gov/hasc/schedules/Kussman72605.pdf)
4. USA Today, 7/29/05
5. President?s Fiscal Year 2006 Budget Request (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/veterans.html)
6. VA Monday Morning Report (http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/201/reports/mmrindex.htm). Week of November 28, 2005.
7. VA Monday Morning Report (http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/201/reports/mmrindex.htm). Week of November 28, 2005.
8. GAO-05-749T
9. Veterans Independent Budget
10. House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing, 1/29/03
11. Veterans of Foreign Wars press release, 2/18/05 (http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.newsDtl&did=2373)
12. CQ Today, 7/13/05
13. Washington Post, 6/24/05
14. CQ Today, 7/13/05
15. Reuters, 8/30/05 (http://www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=2045)
16. National Coalition of Homeless Veterans, testimony to House Veterans? Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity (http://www.nchv.org/content.cfm?id=43)
Democracy and Development
1. Washington Post, 7/1/05
2. Washington Post, 7/1/05
3. Congressional Research Service, RL 32427
4. Millennium Challenge Corporation. (http://www.mca.gov)
5. The Millennium Challenge Corporation has signed a four-year, $110 million compact with Madagascar; a five-year, $215 million compact with Honduras; a five-year, $110 million compact with Cape Verde; a five-year, $175 million compact with Nicaragua; and a five-year, $295.3 million compact with Georgia. Millennium Challenge Corporation. (http://www.mca.gov)
6. Congressional Research Service, RL 32427
7. Debt-AIDS-Trade-Africa (DATA) fact sheet (http://www.data.org/archives/PresReq06onepager.pdf)
8. Congressional Research Service, RL 32427
9. Congressional Research Service, RL 32427
10. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/59/51/34700392.pdf)
11. Foreign Policy, February 2005 (http://www.cgdev.org/docs/FP_Radelet_2_05.pdf)
12. Foreign Policy, February 2005 (http://www.cgdev.org/docs/FP_Radelet_2_05.pdf)
13. Senate Conference Report 109-96
Statistics of the Week
1. UN Office on Drugs and Crime 2005 Afghanistan Opium Survey (http://www.unodc.org/pdf/afg/afg_survey_2005.pdf)
2. UN Office on Drugs and Crime 2005 Afghanistan Opium Survey (http://www.unodc.org/pdf/afg/afg_survey_2005.pdf)
3. UN Office on Drugs and Crime 2005 Afghanistan Opium Survey (http://www.unodc.org/pdf/afg/afg_survey_2005.pdf)
4. UN Office on Drugs and Crime Afghanistan Opium Survey (http://www.unodc.org/pdf/afg/afg_survey_2005.pdf)
5. UN Office on Drugs and Crime 2005 Afghanistan Opium Survey (http://www.unodc.org/pdf/afg/afg_survey_2005.pdf)
6. UN Office on Drugs and Crime 2005 Afghanistan Opium Survey (http://www.unodc.org/pdf/afg/afg_survey_2005.pdf)
7. UN Office on Drugs and Crime 2005 Afghanistan Opium Survey (http://www.unodc.org/pdf/afg/afg_survey_2005.pdf)
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