2,000 Pages: Is it the New 25 Pages?
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Nick Schulz at the Enterprise blog reports on the number of pages in various pieces of important U.S. legislation from the 1800s (Homestead Act with 9 pages) through the current heathcare bill (about 2,000 pages), see summary in the graph above.
By the way, here’s what 2,000 pages looks like, it’s Ford’s 2007 master contract with the UAW and totals 2,215 pages:
Compare that to the 24 page 1941 Ford-UAW contract below, which coincidentally was about the same size as the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (25 pages):
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