What Was 2005 Like in the US?

If you were born in 2005, you arrived in the year that Hurricane Katrina stripped away the comfortable American myth that this couldn't happen here.

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Life in the US in 2005

President

George W. Bush

Gas (per gallon)

$2.30

Loaf of Bread

$1.23

Average House

$297,000

Weekly Wage

$636

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