Re: Workers, Recreation, and Political Participation

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > How much money do American workers spend on recreation (movies,
> > sports, dining out, pleasure travels, etc.)?  What's the median sum
> > spent by workers on recreation?
>
> Release: <ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/cesan.txt>.
>
> For more detail: <http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/dsrv>.
>
> There's a line for "entertainment" - none for travel. In 2002, the
> mean expenditure on travel was $2,079, or 5% of annual expenditures
> of $40,677.
>
> Doug

Thanks.  So, $2,079 on "entertainment" on the average in 2002.  US
workers and petty producers do have enough disposable incomes to
create a political party of their own if they want to.

BTW, the second link above took me to an error message.
--
Yoshie

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