Significant Numbers
Weirdo Beardo
Percentages
Government
Seriously?
100
Amount that Utah plans to raise by levying an $8 conviction fee against each person found guilty there.
What is $2,800,000?
100
Chance that an American thinks "the Jews" were to blame for the financial crisis.
What is 1/4?
100
The percentage of rich Americans that claim they have "lost faith in the integrity of financial service institutions".
What is 64?
100
Percentage change since 1985 in the number of U.S. newspapers with reporters covering congress.
What is -72?
100
Number of U.S. senators who have law degrees.
What is 53?
200
Minimum number of Americans whose healthcare is paid for by taxes.
What is 83,000,000?
200
Number of states that have proposed expansion of gambling laws, including legalization this year.
What is 16?
200
Percentage of Americans who have made premature withdrawals from their retirement/college saving funds since 2008.
What is 27?
200
Percentage change since 2003 in the number of newspaper reporters covering state legislatures.
What is -32?
200
Number of founding fathers who were gay according to Larry Kramer.
What is 2?
300
Number of poppyseed bagels that could be produced with Afghanistan's annual poppyseed harvest.
What is 357,000,000,000?
300
Number they devoted to pirates off the Horn of Africa.
What is 104?
300
Percentage of Somalis last winter who though pirates were protecting Somalia.
What is 70?
300
Total # of minutes during Obamas first 100 days that network TV devoted to Afghanistan.
What is 62?
300
Months after being shot at a city council meeting that a Missourreporter was laid off.
What is 14?
400
Estimated value of the unmined uranium under a 100-acre area in southern VA.
What is $7,740,000,000?
400
Number of the 9 members of the chinese communist party's governing body who were trained as engineers?
What is 8?
400
Percentage of 6-9 year old American girls who wear lipstick or lipgloss.
What is 46?
400
Minimum number of czars that Obama has appointed.
What is 17?
400
Minimum number of spanish collection agencies whose employees wear costumes in order to shame debtors into paying.
What is 15?
500
Estimated total value that world financial institutions will write off by 2010, according to IMF.
What is $4,100,000,000,000?
500
Number of readings and other events listed so far this year on Cowboypoetry.com.
What is 286?
500
Percentage change since 2007 in average cost of a U.S. wedding.
What is -24?
500
Price paid last winter for the foreclosed boyhood home of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
What is $83,000?
500
Number of front page Boston Globe stories since 2007 that were written by journalism students.
What is 12?
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