Notable numbers: Insurance rates, death penalty and Carson support

$47.6 billion The amount of federal money set aside for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts

$30.06 billion How much of that remains in the coffers of two federal agencies whose primary missions have nothing to do with responding to disasters: the Transportation Department and Department of Housing and Urban Development

77 The percentage of Republicans who support the death penalty

40 The percentage of Democrats who support it

87 The percentage of Republicans who supported it in 1995

71 The percentage of Democrats who did in 1995

98 The number of executions nationwide in 1999

35 The number in 2014

32.5 The average increase in insurance rates Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina customers will see next year

78 The percentage more the “Silver” plan costs in North Carolina than it does in the cheapest state, Indiana, as priced for a family of four, with two 40-year-old parents and two children

11.6 The increase in the number of African-Americans enrolling in med school this year over last

46 The percentage of two-parent U.S. households in which both parents work full time

31 That percentage in 1970

26 The percentage of two-parent households in which the father works full time and the mother doesn’t work outside the home

46 The percentage who fit that description in 1970

31 The percentage of Republican-leaning N.C. voters who supported Ben Carson in the latest Elon poll

19 The percentage who favor Donald Trump

Notable numbers

Statistics from the past week that deserve a doubletake

$47.6 billion The amount of federal money set aside for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts

$30.06 billion How much of that remains in the coffers of two federal agencies whose primary missions have nothing to do with responding to disasters: the Transportation Department and Department of Housing and Urban Development