Notable numbers: Higher education funding, super PACS and shootings

23.4 The percentage decrease in per-student funding for higher education in North Carolina between 2008 and 2015

35.8 The percentage increase in tuition at N.C. public universities over the same period

90 The percentage of America’s prisoners held in state institutions

17 The percentage of those inmates who were convicted of drug-related offenses

$255 million What Republican and Democratic super PACs raised the first half of 2015

$235 million What GOP super PACs raised

$19 million What Democratic super PACs raised

$130 million What the presidential candidate campaigns raised themselves

1 million The number of followers Edward Snowden had amassed after one day on Twitter

761,000 The number of followers Bernie Sanders has

322,000 What Jeb Bush has

294 The number of mass shootings in the United States this year – incidents where four or more people were killed or injured by gunfire

This story was originally published October 2, 2015 at 5:27 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Higher education funding, super PACS and shootings."