In Britain, there are 28.89 million employed - 72.5% of the "people of working age"; median earnings approach £25,000. In China, the average urban wage in 2006 was 1750 yuan per month, or (at today's exchange rate) slightly less than £2,000 per year._______ In Britain, there are 3 million homes where no-one works, with an average household benefit payment level of over £4,00...

LOCKING up child criminals costs Scotland £27 million a year, with 108 under-16s held in local authority secure units at an average cost of £250,000 each, new figures have rev

Caveat: I am not an economist, I just like playing with numbers. Consider an economy with 3 classes of people. Class C: 50% of the population, earning an average of $50,000 per year, and spending all of it. Class B: 49% of the population, earning an average of $100,000 per year, spending $95,000, and investing $5,000. Class A: 1% of the population, earning an average of $1,000,000 per year, spendi...

Now here's an interesting story:SALARIES in Scotland are lagging £3,000 behind the average British wage and are more than £18,000 less than pay packets in London, a survey reveals today.The research found only workers in Aberdeen and Edinburgh earned more than the £31,323 average taken home by full-time workers across the UK.No that's not what's "taken home", it's pre-tax. There is a

Exciting news for the ground-breaking Obama campaign that they have raised more than $150 million during September. Even more impressively they received donations from more than 632,000 new donors and nowhave more than 3.1 million donors altogether who have given an average of $86. This is very impressive on several fronts: It once again demonstrates that Obama is creating genuine mass enthusiasm ...

Average council spending on publicity rises to £971,985 Total Town Hall publicity bill £430 million The average local authority spent twice the amount on publicity than it did in 1996-97 In December 2007, the TaxPayers’ Alliance produced the first ever...

OK, we've finally wised up to the fact that a lot of MPs have second and third homes. More widely publicised is the fact that the average house price has fallen by about £30,000 since late 2007. As heartbreaking as that may be for the one million borrowers in negative equity, does it not gladden your heart that for every £1 you have lost, the average MP has lost £3 or £...

The government is now spending on average £10,000 a year on every man,woman and child in the UK. Or, put another way, we have to pay £10,000 a head on average to the government in tax to keep them going. As children do not pay tax, that means the average taxpayer has to pay

The Taxpayers’ Alliance tells us local authorities up and down the country are spending an average of £1 million a year each on publicity. In the West Midlands the sums are even greater. Birmingham heads the league with spending of £9.2 million. Wolverhampton spends £2.45 million, Sandwell £2.49 million, Walsall £1.3 million and Dudley £1.2 million. But ho...

Federal contractors have saved or created an average of about six jobs each with the US stimulus money they have received so far, the first direct data on the effects of the $787bn package show