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Notable numbers: Guantanamo, teen births and 5-4 Supreme Court votes

25-3 UNC’s record against N.C. State under men’s basketball coach Roy Williams
25-3 UNC’s record against N.C. State under men’s basketball coach Roy Williams rwillett@newsobserver.com

270,000 The number of unemployed workers in North Carolina

23,000 The number of laid-off workers in North Carolina who receive unemployment benefits

8 The number of families in North Carolina currently receiving cash assistance for every 100 families with children in poverty

74 The number of families in North Carolina that received cash assistance for every 100 families with children in poverty in 1996

10.5 The percentage of North Carolina middle schoolers who tried to commit suicide in 2013

12.2 The number of births, per 1,000, among North Carolina girls ages 15 to 17 in 2014

19.9 The number in 2010

38.7 The percentage decrease in births

5.7 North Carolina’s unemployment rate at the end of 2015

4.7 The rate for whites

9.6 The rate for blacks

4.5 The rate for Hispanics

25-3 UNC’s record against N.C. State under men’s basketball coach Roy Williams

783 The number of prisoners who have been at Guantanamo since it opened in 2002

532 The number released by the Bush administration

151 The number released by the Obama administration

91 The number still imprisoned

9 The number of deaths or suicides

$4 million The cost per detainee per year

19 The number of cases – 26 percent of the Supreme Court’s docket last year – that were decided 5-to-4

10 The number of 5-4 votes in 2014

23 The number in 2013

100 The percentage of black women nominated for best actress Oscars who played characters in poverty (10 out of 10)

9 The number of those characters who were homeless or nearly so

13 The number of black men out of the 20 who have been nominated for best actor Oscars whose characters were arrested

15 The number who were violent

$72 million What a St. Louis jury ruled that Johnson & Johnson must pay the family of Jacqueline Fox in damages for the role its powder products played in her death from ovarian cancer

$62 million The amount of the ruling that was punitive damages – $1 million for each year of the Alabama woman’s life

^1,200 The number of lawsuits that J&J is facing over its products’ link to cancer

51.4 The percentage of black students in the Northeast who attend schools where 90 percent to 100 percent of their classmates are racial minorities

42.7 The percentage in 1968

51 The percentage of Denmark’s GDP that’s from taxes

33 The percentage in the United Kingdom

26 The percentage in the United States

$1.2 trillion Total outstanding federal student loan debt in 2015

$516 billion Federal student loan debt in 2007

90 The percentage of black undergraduates who had student loans in the 2011-2012 school year

71 The percentage of Democratic absentee ballots cast in South Carolina that were from black voters

This story was originally published February 26, 2016 at 4:09 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Guantanamo, teen births and 5-4 Supreme Court votes."

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