Significant Numbers Weirdo Beardo Percentages Government Seriously?

100

What is $2,800,000?
Amount that Utah plans to raise by levying an $8 conviction fee against each person found guilty there.

100

What is 1/4?
Chance that an American thinks "the Jews" were to blame for the financial crisis.

100

What is 64?
The percentage of rich Americans that claim they have "lost faith in the integrity of financial service institutions".

100

What is -72?
Percentage change since 1985 in the number of U.S. newspapers with reporters covering congress.

100

What is 53?
Number of U.S. senators who have law degrees.

200

What is 83,000,000?
Minimum number of Americans whose healthcare is paid for by taxes.

200

What is 16?
Number of states that have proposed expansion of gambling laws, including legalization this year.

200

What is 27?
Percentage of Americans who have made premature withdrawals from their retirement/college saving funds since 2008.

200

What is -32?
Percentage change since 2003 in the number of newspaper reporters covering state legislatures.

200

What is 2?
Number of founding fathers who were gay according to Larry Kramer.

300

What is 357,000,000,000?
Number of poppyseed bagels that could be produced with Afghanistan's annual poppyseed harvest.

300

What is 104?
Number they devoted to pirates off the Horn of Africa.

300

What is 70?
Percentage of Somalis last winter who though pirates were protecting Somalia.

300

What is 62?
Total # of minutes during Obamas first 100 days that network TV devoted to Afghanistan.

300

What is 14?
Months after being shot at a city council meeting that a Missourreporter was laid off.

400

What is $7,740,000,000?
Estimated value of the unmined uranium under a 100-acre area in southern VA.

400

What is 8?
Number of the 9 members of the chinese communist party's governing body who were trained as engineers?

400

What is 46?
Percentage of 6-9 year old American girls who wear lipstick or lipgloss.

400

What is 17?
Minimum number of czars that Obama has appointed.

400

What is 15?
Minimum number of spanish collection agencies whose employees wear costumes in order to shame debtors into paying.

500

What is $4,100,000,000,000?
Estimated total value that world financial institutions will write off by 2010, according to IMF.

500

What is 286?
Number of readings and other events listed so far this year on Cowboypoetry.com.

500

What is -24?
Percentage change since 2007 in average cost of a U.S. wedding.

500

What is $83,000?
Price paid last winter for the foreclosed boyhood home of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

500

What is 12?
Number of front page Boston Globe stories since 2007 that were written by journalism students.

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