Notable numbers: Wall Street bonuses, guns in the house and Lynch vote
Notable numbers
Statistics from the past week that deserve a doubletake
35 The percentage of Americans who said in 2000 that having a gun in the house makes it safer
47 The percentage who said that in 2006
63 The percentage who said that last year
0 The number of North Carolina schools out of 325 district and public charter schools serving at least 85 percent low-income students that got an A on the new school report cards
0 The number of North Carolina schools out of 222 schools statewide serving less than 25 percent low-income students that received an F
83 The number of U.S. black men there are for every 100 black women age 25 to 54 not in jail
99 The number of white men there are in this age group for every 100 white women not in jail
1 in 12 The number of black men age 25 to 54 behind bars
1 in 60 The number of nonblack men in the age group in jail
1 in 200 The number of black women age 25 to 54 behind bars
1 in 500 The number of nonblack women in jail
$28.5 billion The total of Wall Street bonuses in 2014
$14 billion All full-time minimum wage earnings in 2014
8 The number of times higher the murder rate is for young black men in Durham over the national average
70 The percentage of U.S. college students who graduate with debt
1/3 The number of Americans – 106 million – who live at or within an inch of the federal poverty line
1.6 The percent of GDP that the United States spends on transportationinfrastructure
53 The percentage more the rest of the developed world spends on average
10 The number of Republican senators who voted to confirm N.C. native Loretta Lynch as U.S. attorney general – Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis not among them
49 The percentage of the 5,531 students who applied to Wake County magnet schools for next year who got a spot
80,000 The number of men and women sexually abused in American correctional facilities each year
This story was originally published April 24, 2015 at 6:16 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Wall Street bonuses, guns in the house and Lynch vote."