Editorials
Notable numbers: Walmart jobs, lying politicians and drones
Notable numbers
Statistics from the past week that deserve a doubletake
400,000 The number of U.S. jobs eliminated or displaced because of Walmart’s imports from China between 2001 and 2013
$49 billion The amount of Chinese imports to Walmart in 2013
$324 billion The amount of the U.S. trade deficit with China that year
3,690 The number of new students Wake County public schools added 2010-2011
637 The number of students that private schools, home schools and charter schools in the county added the same year
1,884 The number of new students Wake public schools added 2014-2015
3,357 The number that private schools, home schools and charter schools added
51 The percentage of votes cast for Democrats in U.S. House races in North Carolina in 2012
31 The percentage of seats won by Democrats
84 The percentage of statements by Ben Carson since 2007, as fact-checked by PolitiFact, that were mostly false, false or pants-on-fire false
76 The percentage for Donald Trump
66 The percentage for Ted Cruz
40 For Marco Rubio
32 For Jeb Bush
28 For both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton
26 For President Obama
700,000 The number of drones that Americans will purchase during this year’s holiday season, according to the Consumer Electronics Association
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