Posted Sep 18, 2008 at 05:54pm
12 Pennies Less in Evansville
EVANSVILLE, IN- Evansville marked our second in three stops to Indiana during this tour. Indiana has been hard hit by the current economic problems that have been ignored or exacerbated by this administration. The average Hoosier makes 88 cents on the dollar that the average American makes. Since 2001, the median Indiana income has gone down $5,925. Close to 60,000 more Hoosiers are unemployed now than in 2001.
The union folks at the Evansville Labor Temple deal with Indiana workers from many industries and walks of life and have seen the struggles of working families in their area first hand. We held our event on Wednesday night in front of the Labor Temple. We talked people from all around the area and here are a couple of their stories…
