Of women
: $28,000Median income of U.S. men who are single, childless, in their twenties, and live in a city
: $26,000Portion of voters in the midterm elections who ranked “spending to create jobs” as their highest priority for Congress
: 2/5Percentage that went to unemployment insurance
: 1Percentage of U.S. GDP last year that went to federal job-training and job-search programs
: 0.05Percentage increase since 2004 in the estimated median household net worth of members of Congress
: 22Change between 1929 and 1933
: ???25.9Percentage change in the average value of an American home since 2006
: ???25Percentage of married men and women, respectively, who believe they control the television
: 24, 26Chances that he or she wants to get married
: 19 in 20Chance that an unmarried American under thirty says marriage is “becoming obsolete”
: 1 in 2Distance between the two, in miles
: 0.75Number of times George W. Bush’s memoir refers to his loss of the 2000 popular vote
: 0Percentage of the pedestrians stopped in 2009 for random searches in Philadelphia who were black
: 71Percentage of the city’s population that is black
: 44Portion of the stops that didn’t lead to an arrest
: 11/12Miles from land and maritime borders that the U.S. Border Patrol can legally perform warrantless searches
: 100Portion of all Americans who live within that area
: 2/3Percentage of all Internet networks rerouted to a Chinese telecommunications company last spring
: 15Minutes that U.S. government and military traffic passed through Chinese servers
: 18Fine in California for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and for jaywalking, respectively
: $100, $108Amount spent last year by the U.S. government to simulate an attack by pot growers on the nation’s second-largest dam
: $500,000Number of licensed peyote dealers in Texas
: 3Estimated value of the bulletproof-car market in Mexico
: $90,000,000Average number of times a Canadian apologizes each week
: 4In NY-16, the country’s poorest
: $17,995Median income in NY-14, the country’s wealthiest congressional district
: $60,099Factor by which Derek Jeter’s 2010 salary did
: 288Factor by which Joe DiMaggio’s 1950 salary exceeded the mean U.S. family income
: 26Odds today of dying there in an automobile accident
: 1 in 26,000Odds in New York City in 1900 of dying in a horse accident
: 1 in 19,000Chance that a mammal species declared extinct since 1500 was later rediscovered
: 1 in 3Percentage change since 2008 in the number of confirmed gonorrhea cases in Alaska
: +71Portion of the U.S. population that will have diabetes by 2050, if current trends continue
: 1/3Maximum number of calories permitted under San Francisco law for restaurant meals that come with a free toy
: 600Portion of all calories consumed by U.S. children that are nutritionally empty
: 2/5Percentage of the fuel used to power Amtrak’s Heartland Flyer that comes from rendered beef fat
: 20Estimated number of pigs that could be bought with the money diverted last year to congressional earmarks
: 108,200,000Of Republicans
: 53Percentage who said they had an unfavorable view of Democrats
: 52