The drop, reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, reflects the growing shift of readers to the Internet, where newspaper readership has climbed, and also a strategy by many major papers to shed unprofitable or marginally profitable print circulation.
Much of the drop was the result of declining consumption the U.S. Department of Transportation said that the total distance driven in the U.S. in August fell by 5.6% year on year, the biggest drop reported since 1942, the year data began to be collected.
The decline was less than the 11percentthird-quarterer drop reported by Ericsson, the global market leader, and the 14 percent reduction by Nokia Siemens Networks, the Finnish-German joint venture.
But the continuing decline in police numbers also comes at a time when the fall in crime appears to be accelerating with an 8% drop reported by the latest crime survey for England and Wales over the same period.
The decline in profit was less than a 29percentt drop reported by Exxon Mobil, the largest publicly traded oil company, but greater than the 17percentt decline reported by the industry's No. 2 player, the Royal Dutch/Shell Group.
The closely watched survey by the Ifo thinktank reported a drop in confidence for the third month in a row, reaching the lowest level in two years.
The survey — conducted in January by the Department of Housing and Urban Development — reported a 30percentt drop in chronic homelessness nationwide, mostly among single adults, between 2005 and the end of 2007.
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A 2001 study sponsored by the federal Department of Education reported a 20percentt drop in recidivism rates among more than 3,000 inmates in Maryland, Minnesota and Ohio who had participated in an academic or vocational program.
