American Voice

• 27% of males and 10% of females are incarcerated.
• 33% receive public assistance
• 37% have not finished high school
• And a whopping 50% are unemployed

• Children are 11 times more likely to be abused in state care than in their own home.
• The overall child victim of maltreatment rate in 2007 was 10.6 victims per every 1,000 children. The rate for state child victim rates? Up to 26.3 victims per every 1,000 children.
• It is over 5 times more likely that a child dies as a result of abuse in foster care than a child in general population
• 2% of all child fatalities happen in foster care - which is a horrifically high number considering that out of all the children in the general population, only .4% are in foster care. That's right - .4%.

• 16% of Americans have not completed high school.
• 75% of state prisoners have not completed high school.
• 67% of jailed inmates have not completed high school.

• 84% of all Americans have at least completed high school; the violent crime rate for the U.S. is 469 per 100,000 individuals.
• The ten states with the largest percentage of population with a at least a high school diploma is a high 91.5%; the violent crime rate for these ten states is  305 per 100,000 individuals (below the national average.)
• The ten states with the smallest percentage of population with at least a high school diploma is 80.5%; the violent crime rate for these states is 488 per 100,000 individuals (above the national average.)

• Women who did not finish high school make an average of $10,786  a year.
• Men who did not finish high school make an average of $18,990 a year.

President Obama's weekly address focused on the economy and the recently passed Wall Street reform bill.

Despite all of the controversy that has tossed back and forth amongst the news networks this week, the President of the United States was still able to get much accomplished.