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Notable numbers: Confederate-named roads, income growth and child-care subsidies

Notable numbers

STATISTICS FROM THE PAST WEEK THAT DESERVE A DOUBLETAKE

5,991 The number of people killed by gun violence in South Carolina from 2001 to 2010

15 Percent by which that exceeds all U.S. combat deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined

2 Rank of South Carolina among all states for aggravated assaults with a firearm

468 The number of miles of public roadways in former Confederate states named after Confederate President Jefferson Davis

106 The number of miles named after J.E.B. Stuart

59.7 The number named after Robert E. Lee

1,183 The number of miles of public roadways in the 11 Confederate states named for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

683 The number named for President Abraham Lincoln

27.1 The percentage increase in real income growth for the top 1 percent (those with incomes more than $423,000 in 2013) between 2009 and 2014

4.3 The percentage increase in real income growth for the other 99 percent of Americans during that period

58 The percentage of all income growth captured by the 1 percent

$44,997 The average yearly income of the bottom 99 percent in 2013

$1,119,315 The average income of the top 1 percent that year

31,359 The number of children, according to the N.C. Budget & Tax Center, on the waiting list for a child care subsidy in North Carolina in May

6,227 The number of children who have lost or will lose access to subsidies because of new eligibility restrictions

937 The number of children living with grandparents or other relatives who lost subsidies because of those restrictions

$768 The average monthly cost of child care in North Carolina

$ 503 Monthly cost of tuition for a full-time in-state student at N.C. State University

$710 million What Americans are expected to spend on fireworks for this weekend, up from an estimated $590 million in 2010

150 million The number of hotdogs purchased during the Fourth of July weekend in 2014

22.8 million The number of cases of beer sold during the Fourth of July weekend last year

This story was originally published July 3, 2015 at 1:30 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Confederate-named roads, income growth and child-care subsidies."

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