Notable numbers: Traffic deaths, Wake schools and flush fund managers

1 Where Apex ranks in Money magazine’s list of best places to live in America

$480 million The amount Yale University paid out to private equity fund managers last year as compensation for managing a third of Yale’s $24 billion endowment

$1 billion The amount the endowment contributed to the university’s operating budget

$170 million The portion of that billion that went to tuition assistance, fellowships and prizes

14 The percentage increase in U.S. traffic deaths in the first six months of this year over last year

19,000 The number of deaths in the first six months

18 The number of Wake County schools where at least half the students received subsidized lunches in 2008

46 The number of schools in that category in 2014

0 The number of Wake County schools where at least 70 percent of the enrollment received subsidized lunches in 2008

12 The number in 2014

41 The percentage of all Wake County students who were black or Hispanic in 2014

40 The number of cigarettes per day residents of Beijing would have to smoke to equal the unhealthiness of the air they breathe

This story was originally published August 21, 2015 at 4:12 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Traffic deaths, Wake schools and flush fund managers."