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46 Alison Little, “20,000 Families to be put under 24/7 CCTV surveillance in their own homes ‘to change their bad behaviour’,” The Daily Express, July 29, 2009; available online at http://justgetthere.us/blog/archives/20,000-Families-to-beput-under-247-CCTV-surveillance-in-their-own-homes-to-change-their-bad-behaviour.html.
Chapter Six
1 Michael Snyder, “The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it,” The Business Insider, July 15, 2010; available online at http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wiped-outhere’s-the-stats-to-prove-it-520657.html?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,SPY,MCD,WMT,XRT,DIA.
2 Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Data Retrieval: Labor Force Statistics (CPS)”; available online at http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab13.htm.
3 Carolyn Dimitri, Anne Effland, and Neilson Conklin, “The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy,” US Department of Agriculture, June 3, 2005; available online at http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib3/eib3.htm#changes and http://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/farmers_land.htm.
4 Remarks by the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack before US House Committee on Agriculture in Washington, DC, May 12, 2011; available online at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2011/05/0208.xml&contentidonly=true.
5 Aaron E. Cobet and Gregory A. Wilson, “Comparing 50 years of labor productivity in U.S. and foreign manufacturing,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2002; available online at http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/06/art4full.pdf.
6 Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Employment Situation Summary,” May 6, 2011; available online at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm.
7 Dennis Cauchon, “Summer jobs hit all-time low for youths,” USA Today, September 3, 2010; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2010-09-03-youth-unemployment_N.htm.
8 Susan Page, “Married? Single? Status affects how women vote,” USA Today, August 25, 2004; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/polls/2004-08-25-female-vote_x.htm.
9 US Department of Commerce, “Projections of the Number of Households and Families in the United States: 1995 to 2010,” 2010; available online at http://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1129.pdf.
10 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2008 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.
11 “Busy Not Running GM,” Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2009; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124389952143874411.html.
12 John Tamny, “Memo To Washington: Let GM Fail,” Forbes, July 10, 2008; available online at http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/gm-washington-detroit-opedcx_jt_0710tamny.html.
13 Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston, “Detroit Needs a Selloff, Not a Bailout,” Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2008; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122783248646663009.html.
14 Testimony of Rick Wagoner (CEO of the General Motors Corporation) to the United States Senate in Washington, D.C., November 18, 2008; available online at http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WSJ_WagonerTestimony-081118.pdf.
15 Associated Press, “Detroit Three erasing productivity gap,” June 5, 2008; available online at http://www.rrstar.com/archive/x142951738/Detroit-Three-erasingproductivity-gap.
16 Jennifer Harper, “Kerry aims to rescue newspapers,” The Washington Times,April 22, 2009; available online at http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/22/kerry-aims-to-rescue-newspaper-industry/.
17 Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, The Ruins of Detroit (London: Steidl, 2011).
18 John Huey, “Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. Is in Motown,” Time, September 24, 2009; available online at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1925681,00.html.
19 Jonathan Oosting, “Detroit school board president struggles to write a coherent sentence; does it matter?” MLive.com, March 4, 2010; available online at http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/03/detroit_school_board_president.html.
20 Anthony Daniels, “Britain,