FREE FACTS

% of workers receiving the same in 1993 (Bureau of Labor Statistics) :
61%

% of WA State business leaders who think companies should not be obligated to pay a portion of workers' health insurance:
60%

% increase 1980-93 of US consumer prices:
75%

% increase 1980-93 of factory wages:
68%

% increase 1980-93 of chief executive wages:
514%

The hourly earnings of Walt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner (Business Week) :
$78,000

# of violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act committed by US water systems in 1991-92 (EPA) :
250,000

Estimated # of Americans that get sick each year from contaminated water (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) :
940,000

% increase in the incidence of cancer in the US since 1950 (EPA) :
42%

# of US Congresspeople who in 1994 supported legislation that would allow more cancer-causing chemicals in drinking water (State PIRGs) :
185

Proportion of Congresspeople who are millionaires (and who probably drink bottled water?) (Seattle Times) :
1 in 6