February, 2006, WAWG Index – Up 68%

In this fifth survey for the WAWG index, the group average jumped by 68 percent from January, 2006.    The one reason for the large jump was a huge 1,017 percent increase for “election fraud”. The fraud jump continues the upward trend for this category.
 
“Protected corporate power” also continues it’s upward trend almost tripling last month’s increase at 18 percent for February.

Of the fourteen items tracked, 6 were down, 8 were up, and 0 were unchanged. The cumulative change for the index is up 56 percent.