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Notable numbers: Approval ratings, food stamps and income inequality

President Barack Obama’s approval rating among Republicans has averaged 14 percent.
President Barack Obama’s approval rating among Republicans has averaged 14 percent. AP

3 The number of states that have reduced the budget for mental health care every year for the past three years: Alaska, North Carolina and Wyoming

11 The number of states that increased investment from 2013 to 2015: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia and Washington

92 The percentage of Americans aged 20 to 24 who had a driver’s license in 1983

77 The percentage who did in 2014

55 The percentage of 17-year-olds who had a license in 2001

45 The percentage in 2014

89 The highest approval rating the Pew Research Center ever recorded for President George HW Bush

86 The highest for President George W Bush

75 For President Jimmy Carter

71 For President Bill Clinton

68 For President Richard Nixon

68 For President Ronald Reagan

64 For President Barack Obama

80 The average approval rating for Obama among Democrats over the course of his presidency

14 The average approval for Obama among Republicans

115,000 The number of low-income people in North Carolina likely to lose food stamp benefits thanks to new requirements

83 The number of N.C. counties where there are more jobless workers than job openings

$40 The amount of average weekly food assistance received by people who will lose benefits

$2,200 The average annual incomes of people subject to the three-month time limit for food benefits

692 The number of shooting incidents in the United States involving children age 11 years or younger in 2015

628 The number in 2014

19 The number there had been by Jan. 11

12 The number of times faster the average income for the top 1 percent of Tar Heels grew between 1979 and 2012 than for the bottom 99 percent

100 The percentage of all income growth in the first three years of the recovery after the 2007 recession that went to the top 1 percent

27 The number of times greater the average income is for North Carolinians in the top 5 percent than that of the bottom 20 percent

52.4-to-1 What that ratio is in Watauga County, the highest in the state

11.90-to-1 What it is in Camden County, the lowest

16 The percentage-point lead Donald Trump had among Republican voters over his nearest competitor in a Real Clear Politics poll this week

8.6 The percentage-point lead Hillary Clinton had over her nearest Democratic opponent

6.1 The percentage increase in N.C. General Fund receipts for the first six months of fiscal year 2016 over the same period last fiscal year

1938 The last year a hurricane formed in Janurary

$27.8 million Sales of lottery tickets in North Carolina on Wednesday, a single-day record

This story was originally published January 15, 2016 at 5:32 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Approval ratings, food stamps and income inequality."

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