EXHIBIT VII TABLE 15.-Selected fiscal data relating to public assistance payments, 1 Excludes Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; data on per capita and personal income not available. ? Data not available. NOTE. All right-to-work States, except 1, take a better-than-average bit out of the Federal public assistance dollar. EXHIBIT VIII TABLE 3.-Ranking of States in estimated per-capita amounts of Federal Government revenues and payments: Average for fiscal years 1959-61 1 For manufacturing, data relates to production and related workers; for contract construction, to construction workers; and for retail trade to nonsupervisory workers. ? Excludes eating and drinking places. Earnings in current prices, adjusted to exclude overtime and interindustry shifts (April used for 1941-46). Earnings in current prices divided by Consumer Price Index on a 1961 base. Not available. Data include Alaska and Hawaii beginning 1959. This inclusion has not significantly affected these earnings series. 7 Preliminary. Note. Average hourly earnings monthly data available beginning 1932 for manu- Average weekly earnings monthly data available beginning June 1914 for all manu- Source: Department of Labor. EXHIBIT X Profits are at an all-time high, have doubled since 1954 By contrast wages have been held down by "wage guidelines" Workers on manufacturing payrolls: Average weekly earnings in 1964 $80.38 Comparison of percentage increase of wages and profits (1954-64) |