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Notable numbers: Wake students, women inmates and millennial voters

Five-year-old Michael MacDonna paints while being homeschooled in Cary. The MacDonna family is part of a trend in which the number of new Wake County students enrolling in homeschools, private schools and charter schools has exceeded the school system’s growth for two years in a row.
Five-year-old Michael MacDonna paints while being homeschooled in Cary. The MacDonna family is part of a trend in which the number of new Wake County students enrolling in homeschools, private schools and charter schools has exceeded the school system’s growth for two years in a row. tlong@newsobserver.com

5,632 The number of students in Wake County added to the charter, private or home school rolls in the past two years

3,880 The number of students that the Wake County Public School System has added

19.5 The percentage of the 195,353 students in Wake County who were home-schooled or attended private or charter schools last school year

17 The percentage of students statewide who are home-schooled or attend charter or private schools

$24.8 million The amount of voucher money the state is offering for the 2016-17 school year

$144.8 million The amount of state money slated to go to vouchers by the 2028-29 school year

1,000 The percentage increase in the cost of college textbooks since 1977

$57 The average price of a new college textbook in 2008

$82 The average price in 2015

44 The percentage increase in price

$1,100 The average that universities suggested students budget for textbooks for the 2015-2016 year

76 The percentage of Americans who said in a new Pew poll that undocumented immigrants are as hard-working and honest as U.S. citizens

67 The percentage who said undocumented immigrants are no more likely than citizens to commit serious crimes

61 The percentage who opposed building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border

29 The percentage who said “creating a way for immigrants already here illegally to become citizens if they meet certain requirements” should be a priority

24 The percentage who said the focus should be on “better border security and stronger enforcement of immigration laws”

45 The percentage who said, when given the option, that both should be given equal priority

157,000 The number of people locked in U.S. jails on any given day in 1970

750,000 The number today

8,000 The number of inmates in 1970 who were women

110,000 The number today

80 The percentage of those female inmates who are mothers of small children

75 The percentage of women in jail who said they’d experienced symptoms of a mental health disorder in the past year

86 The percentage who reported having endured sexual violence

77 The percentage who had experienced partner violence

126 million The number of Millennial and Gen X adults eligible to vote in July

56 The percentage of eligible voters that represents

98 million The number of baby boomers and other adults from prior generations eligible to vote in July

53.9 The percentage of Millennial and Gen X eligible voters who turned out in 2012

70 The percentage of eligible voters in the Baby Boom, Silent and Greatest generations who voted

This story was originally published September 2, 2016 at 4:24 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Wake students, women inmates and millennial voters."

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