from ThinkProgress's Think Fast:
“The I.R.S.’s scrutiny of the nation’s biggest companies is at a 20-year low,” according to a study conducted by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a “historic collapse in audits.” The study “found that major corporations — defined as those with assets of at least $250 million — have about a one in four chance of being audited, down from about three in four in 1990.”
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“More than two-thirds of Americans aged 27 to 42 don’t think they will ever be able to stop working,” according to a survey released today by Scottrade and BetterInvesting. “In contrast, 64 percent of respondents aged 55 to 64 said they could retire and not worry, even though this group is much closer to retirement age.”
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The Defense Department released its latest American military causality numbers for Iraq and Afghanistan, “and the figures reveal non-fatal casualties that go well beyond the more than 4,000 U.S. troops who have died so far.” As of April 5, 4,492 soldiers have died while serving in the two wars while 31,590 have been wounded and 38,631 have been removed from the battlefields for “non-hostile-related medical air transports.”
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A new AP poll says that 60 percent of the public say “they definitely won’t buy a home in the next two years, up from 53 percent who said so in an AP-AOL poll in September 2006,” “the latest sign of increasing pessimism about the nation’s housing crisis.” Just 11 percent are certain or very likely to buy soon, down from 15 percent two years ago.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/14/thinkfast-april-14-2008/
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