35. Steve Doughty, “Single mother Britain: U.K. has most lone parents of any major European nation,”
36. Helen Weathers, “Why does Britain have record levels of abortion and an unprecedented need for IVF?,”
37. Jack Grimston, “Children wear body armour school uniform,”
38. “The plan for social security: full outline,”
39. Patrick Wintour, “Brown: Remembrance Sunday should become ‘British Day’,”
40. John Carvel, “Brown urged to create holiday on birthday of health service,”
41. Jason Groves, “’Shameless’ generation grows as seven million now live in households where no one works,”
42. Tim Shipman, “More than 900,000 have been off sick for a DECADE–costing taxpayer £4bn a year,”
43. Paul Sims, “Councils pay for disabled to visit prostitutes and lap-dancing clubs from £520m taxpayer fund,”
44. Abul Taher, “‘Soviet’ Britain swells amid the recession,”
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’,”
Chapter Six
1. Michael Snyder, “The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it,”
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.