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To: PartyTime who wrote (9959)	4/13/2004 11:05:23 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 173976

PT. We saw the writing on the wall when this Iraq mire when the notion of war was still a glint in Bush's squinty eyes.

To: PartyTime who wrote (9959)	4/13/2004 11:06:42 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 173976

Record Deterioration in the Middle-Class Misery Index Among the Largest Increases in Health, Tuition, and Gasoline Prices in Decades April 12, 2004 For Immediate Release johnkerry.com The loss of 2.6 million private-sector jobs under President Bush is a serious challenge for the American economy. Less noted but perhaps even more important is the fact that middle-class families are increasingly being squeezed by the rising cost of health care, college tuition and gasoline – at the same time that wages and incomes are stagnating and personal bankruptcies are at record levels. This report describes and analyzes a new measure of the pressures faced by American families – the Middle-class Misery Index. The Middle-class Misery Index combines seven different indicators: median family income, college tuition, health costs, gasoline cost, bankruptcies, the homeownership rate, and private-sector job growth. The data used to compute the Middle-class Misery Index are available from 1976 through 2003.