Notable numbers: House Bill 2, Boko Haram and corporate welfare

A member of “Bring Back Our Girls” movement carries placard to press for the release of the missing Chibok schoolgirls in Lagos, on April 14, 2016. Nigeria’s government said it was studying a “proof of life” video showing 15 of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, as parents and their supporters marked the second anniversary of the kidnapping. A total of 276 girls were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, northeast Nigeria, on April 14, 2014. Fifty-seven escaped in the immediate aftermath. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI AFP/Getty Images

250 The number of jobs that Deutsche Bank will not create on its Cary campus because of North Carolina’s House Bill 2

400 The number of jobs PayPal had planned for a new Charlotte operations center that the company scrapped

90 The percentage of the lawmakers who voted for HB2 who have no opponent this fall or who won their last race by more than 10 percentage points

4 The number of groups that had canceled planned events in Wake County because of HB2, as of Monday

$732,000 The amount the county has lost in economic benefits

$5.38 billion The annual economic impact of the High Point furniture market

600,000 The number of visitor days the furnishing industry accounts for each year

37,000 The number of jobs attributed to the furnishing industry

75,000 The number of retailers and designers who annually attend the market – hundreds of whom have boycotted it this year because of HB2

1 in 5 The proportion of suicide bombers deployed by Boko Haram in West Africa in the past two years who was a child, usually a girl

44 The number of children the group used in suicide attacks last year, according to Unicef

151 The number of Boko Haram suicide bombings last year

32 The number in 2014

4 The number of children the group used in 2014

8 The age of the youngest known bomber

54 The percentage of white U.S. voters who say life in this country has gotten worse for people like them over the past half-century

17 The percentage of black voters who said life has gotten worse for people like them over the past half-century

66 The percentage of Republicans or those who lean Republican who say life has gotten worse

28 The percentage of Democrats or those who lean Democrat who say life has gotten worse

51 The percentage of all voters who expect life to be worse for the next generation of Americans

24 The percentage who expect it to be better

$27 What America’s 50 biggest companies got back in federal loans, loan guarantees and bailouts for every dollar paid in federal taxes between 2008 and 2014

$130 What every $1 the biggest companies spent on lobbying led to in tax breaks

$4,000 What every $1 spent on lobbying led to in federal loans, loan guarantees and bailouts

27 The number of corporations among the 500 in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index that were both profitable in 2015 and paid no net income tax globally

Correction: Last week’s Notable Numbers incorrectly stated the number of “American Idol” winners from North Carolina. Caleb Johnson of Asheville became the third N.C. resident to win in 2014

This story was originally published April 15, 2016 at 4:40 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: House Bill 2, Boko Haram and corporate welfare."

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