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36. Helen Weathers, “Why does Britain have record levels of abortion and an unprecedented need for IVF?,” The Daily Mail, June 30, 2006; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-393236/Why-does-Britain-record-levels-abortion-unprecedented-need-IVF.html.

37. Jack Grimston, “Children wear body armour school uniform,” The Times, September 9, 2007; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2414704.ece

38. “The plan for social security: full outline,” The Guardian, December 2, 1942; available online at http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127564,00.html.

39. Patrick Wintour, “Brown: Remembrance Sunday should become ‘British Day’,” The Guardian, January 14, 2006; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/14/britishidentity.labour.

40. John Carvel, “Brown urged to create holiday on birthday of health service,” The Guardian, January 1, 2008; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jan/01/uk.publicservices.

41. Jason Groves, “’Shameless’ generation grows as seven million now live in households where no one works,” The Daily Mail, September 14, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310220/7-million-live-jobless-households-works.html.

42. Tim Shipman, “More than 900,000 have been off sick for a DECADE–costing taxpayer £4bn a year,” The Daily Mail, August 16, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303320/4bn-year-900-000-whove-decade-sick.html.

43. Paul Sims, “Councils pay for disabled to visit prostitutes and lap-dancing clubs from £520m taxpayer fund,” The Daily Mail, August 16, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303273/Councils-pay-disabled-visit-prostitutes-lap-dancing-clubs.html.

44. Abul Taher, “‘Soviet’ Britain swells amid the recession,” The Times, January 25, 2009; available online at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5581225.ece.

45. House of Commons, “A Century of Change: Trends in UK statistics since 1900,” December 21, 1999; available online at http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf.

46. Alison Little, “20,000 Families to be put under 24/7 CCTV surveillance in their own homes ‘to change their bad behaviour’,” The Daily Express, July 29, 2009; available online at http://justgetthere.us/blog/archives/20,000-Families-to-be-put-under-247-CCTV-surveillance-in-their-own-homes-to-change-their-bad-behaviour.html.

Chapter Six

1. Michael Snyder, “The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it,” The Business Insider, July 15, 2010; available online at http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wiped-out-here’s-the-stats-to-prove-it-520657.html?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,SPY,MCD,WMT,XRT,DIA.

2. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Data Retrieval: Labor Force Statistics (CPS)”; available online at http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab13.htm.

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.