3. Carolyn Dimitri, Anne Effland, and Neilson Conklin, “The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy,” US Department of Agriculture, June 3, 2005; available online at http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib3 /eib3.htm#changes and http://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/farmers_land.htm.
4. Remarks by the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack before US House Committee on Agriculture in Washington, DC, May 12, 2011; available online at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome? contentid=2011/05/0208.xml&contentidonly=true.
5. Aaron E. Cobet and Gregory A. Wilson, “Comparing 50 years of labor productivity in U.S. and foreign manufacturing,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2002; available online at http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/06/art4full.pdf .
6. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Employment Situation Summary,” May 6, 2011; available online at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm.
7. Dennis Cauchon, “Summer jobs hit all-time low for youths,”
8. Susan Page, “Married? Single? Status affects how women vote,”
9. US Department of Commerce, “Projections of the Number of Households and Families in the United States: 1995 to 2010,” 2010; available online at http://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1129.pdf.
10. U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2008 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.
11. “Busy Not Running GM,”
12. John Tamny, “Memo To Washington: Let GM Fail,”
13. Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston, “Detroit Needs a Selloff, Not a Bailout,”
14. Testimony of Rick Wagoner (CEO of the General Motors Corporation) to the United States Senate in Washington, D.C., November 18, 2008; available online at http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WSJ_WagonerTestimony-081118.pdf.
15. Associated Press, “Detroit Three erasing productivity gap,” June 5, 2008; available online at http://www.rrstar.com/archive/x142951738/Detroit-Three-erasing-productivity-gap.
16. Jennifer Harper, “Kerry aims to rescue newspapers,”
17. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre,
18. John Huey, “Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. Is in Motown,”
19. Jonathan Oosting, “Detroit school board president struggles to write a coherent sentence; does it matter?” MLive.com, March 4, 2010; available online at http://www. mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/03/detroit_school_board_president.html.
20. Anthony Daniels, “Britain, benign & proud,” Speech reprinted in
21. Laura Berman, “Does DPS leader’s writing send wrong message?”
22. Michelle Malkin, “Diplomas Won’t Make Jihadis Go Away, Barack,”
23. Laura Berman, “Does DPS leader’s writing send wrong message?”
24. “Detroit: Now a Ghost Town,”
25. Henry Payne, “Unions of Urban Decay,”
26. Steven Gray, “In Detroit, Nearly 50% Unemployment Rate?”
27. Ibid.
28. John Huey, “Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. is in Motown,”
29. Niall Ferguson, “Empire Falls,”
30. Centers for Disease Control, “Prevalence of overweight, obesity and extreme obesity among adults: United States, trends 1960-62 through 2005-2006”; available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/h estat/overweight/overweight_adult.htm.
