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Working Families Vote 2008
Are You Better Off than You Were Eight Years Ago?
Marcy Wheeler breaks down the numbers:
January 19, 2001: 10,587.59
September 29, 2008: 10,365.45
NASDAQ Jan 19, 2001 = 2770.38
NASDAQ September 29, 2008 = 1983.73
CPI, January 19, 2001: 175
CPI, September 29, 2008: 219
Dollar exchange with Euro, January 19, 2001: 1.068CBS News's Mark Knoller notes that the national debt has grown 71.9 percent since Bush took office, "more than under any previous president."
Dollar exchange with Euro, September 29, 2008: .695
Tagged as: numbers, eight years, fail
Faiz Shakir is the Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Editor of ThinkProgress.org and The Progress Report.
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