Actually, this is the one that caught my  eye:

one needs today 100 weeks gross wage more than 30 years ago to buy a house.

Has impact. Should be common knowlege in the US. We need statistics, but stats comprehensible to everyone, relevant to everyone.

How many work days are needed to pay the rent today, as compared to 1980?

How many hours a day do most people need to work, to provide an adequate food/shelter state?

Long ago I read, in one of those radical rags published by commie pinkoes like myself, that in the middle ages in the couple centuries before the industrial revolution, it was about 5 hours a day--less than today.

I am reading afew's excellent diaries (linked below), but it's a necessary thing to find ways to make the real numbers (or more reality-based numbers) widely accessible.
Good diary, important subject.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.