Monthly Notes:

• 300K of 1M jobs created in Texas were government jobs
• 9.5% of hourly Texas workers earn minimum wage (national average of hourly workers who earn minimum wage is 6%)
• 51% of Texas workers make less than $33K a year, only 30% make more than $50K a year
• Health Care Reform - CBO says more people would choose not to work because of better access to health care
• 26% of Texas doesn’t have health care (national average 17%)
• Median income in the US was $53K in 2000 and $49K in 2010
• US had a poverty rate of 11% in 2001, 15.1% in 2010, poverty of 1 in 6 Americans, highest in any major industrialized nation
• If you’re in the lower 20% you will die 6.5 years sooner than someone in the upper 20%
• Texas has the lowest level of adults with a high school diploma
• 66% of Americans favor taxing the rich more
• Employer health insurance premiums went up 9% in 2011, below the average of 13% each year since 2000 (131% increase in 10 years)

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