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  Offshore tax havens cost state governments nearly $39.8 billion in lost revenues in 2011.
  U.S. PIRG Education Fund
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  In 2011, there were 23.5 million children in low-income working families.
  The Working Poor Families Project
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  38 percent of private-sector workers don’t have paid sick leave.
  Center for American Progress
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  Only 2.5% of small business owners make more than $250,000 per year
  AFL-CIO
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  67% of live-in domestic workers earn less than their state's mandated minimum wage.
  Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work
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  Medicaid covers one in three children and more than 40% of all births.
  Kaiser Family Foundation
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  Medicaid costs 20% less than private insurance for adults and 27% less for children.
  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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  Social Security lifts more than 1 million children out of poverty
  National Academy of Social Insurance
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  Social Security keeps 21 million Americans out of poverty.
  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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  The typical American family's annual income decreased $3,837 between 2000 and 2010.
  U.S. Census Bureau
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  If the federal minimum wage had kept pace with the cost of living over the past 40 years, it would be $10.52 an hour today, not $7.25.
  Center for American Progress Action Fund
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  A 0.5% tax on Wall Street trades could raise up to $170 billion a year.
  The American Prospect
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  More than 6 million manufacturing workers lost their jobs between 1998 and 2009.
  AFL-CIO Industrial Unions Council
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  Latinos who are members of unions earn nearly 51 percent more than their nonunion peers.
  Bureau of Labor Statistics
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  African American union members earn about $185 more each week than their nonunion peers.
  Bureau of Labor Statistics
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