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Notable numbers: Trump’s billions, retirement funds and college debt

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$3 billion What Donald Trump’s share of his father’s real-estate company would be worth today, as reported by National Journal, if he had simply invested it in a mutual fund of S&P 500 stocks in 1974 and done nothing since but fingerpaint

$8 billion What the $200 million that Forbes magazine determined he was worth in 1982 would be worth today if he had invested it in that fund

$4.1 billion What Forbes declared as Trump’s worth in June

$2.9 billion Trump’s worth as estimated by Bloomberg

55,000 The number of homeless people sleeping in shelters in New York City

40 The percentage of those who are children

$28,950 The average college debt for the Class of 2014 graduates of public, nonprofit colleges

$4.9 billion The combined total of the retirement funds of the 100 largest U.S. chief executives – equal to the entire retirement accounts of 41 percent of U.S. families, or 116 million people

$234.2 million The total retirement savings of David C. Novak, the recently departed chief executive officer of Yum! Brands Inc.

12 The percentage of University of Virginia students in 1990 were African-American

6.5 The percentage of UVA students today who are black

^1,200 The number of people who died in murder-suicides in America in 2014

93 The percentage of those incidents in which the killer used a gun

Notable numbers

Statistics from the past week that deserve a doubletake

$3 billion What Donald Trump’s share of his father’s real-estate company would be worth today, as reported by National Journal, if he had simply invested it in a mutual fund of S&P 500 stocks in 1974 and done nothing since but fingerpaint

$8 billion What the $200 million that Forbes magazine determined he was worth in 1982 would be worth today if he had invested it in that fund

$4.1 billion What Forbes declared as Trump’s worth in June

$2.9 billion Trump’s worth as estimated by Bloomberg

55,000 The number of homeless people sleeping in shelters in New York City

40 The percentage of those who are children

$28,950 The average college debt for the Class of 2014 graduates of public, nonprofit colleges

$4.9 billion The combined total of the retirement funds of the 100 largest U.S. chief executives – equal to the entire retirement accounts of 41 percent of U.S. families, or 116 million people

$234.2 million The total retirement savings of David C. Novak, the recently departed chief executive officer of Yum! Brands Inc.

This story was originally published October 30, 2015 at 5:37 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Trump’s billions, retirement funds and college debt."

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