LUCUBRATE ZINE
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Random collected facts by Bub and Michael
there are more vacant housing units in urban america than homeless people
the national debt is the exact amount that has been spent on nuclear weapons
the approximate amount of food thrown away every day is twice as much as the number of homeless people
over 725 members of Food Not Bombs have been arrested for distributing free food to people in need in the san francisco area alone
40% of homeless are families with small children
these are taken from an article about Nike:
workers at VN Nike show manufacturing plants make on average 20 cents an hour or $1.60 a day, the cost of three meals per day in Cu Chi is about $2.00
all workers received $37 per month which is below the minimum wage of $45 per month in Viet Nam.
13% of all people that use drugs in a month are black
Black people, however, make up 55% of all drug related convictions
74% of people who receive prison sentences for them are black
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