Facts and Figures

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> Income and Healthcare
> Sexual Health
> Georgians with No Healthcare Insurance
> Health and Religious Faith
> Understanding and Improving Health

Sources:
1. Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, November 2000.
2. "U.S. Clings to Myth that Wealth is Fairly Divided," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 10, 2001.

People in the lowest income households are five times more likely to report their health as fair or poor than people in the highest income households. (1)

Inequalities in income and education underlie many health disparities in the United States. Recent health gains appear to reflect achievements among the higher socioeconomic groups; lower socioeconomic groups continue to lag behind. (1)

From 1979 to 1997, the average after-tax income of the lowest-earning one-fifth of Americans actually dropped from $10,900 to $10,800. During the same period, the after-tax income of the wealthiest 1 percent grew by 157 percent from $263,700 to $677,900. (2)

The average CEO of a major corporation earns $13.1 million in compensation--or $36,000 every day of the year. Meanwhile, "hard-working people in such good old all-American jobs as teachers, factory workers, secretaries and police officers are falling farther and farther behind." (2)