harpers.org/archive/2014/10/harpers-index-367/ Harpers Index 2014 Percentage of U.S. Republicans who say they could not live on the minimum wage : 69 Who support raising it : 37 Minimum number of times since 2011 that members of Congress have accidentally cast the wrong vote : 120 Amount the federal government has budgeted this year for IT maintenance : $58,400,000,000 Percentage of federal agencies whose servers have failed in the past twelve months : 94 Value of a cloud-computing contract awarded by the CIA to Amazon last year : $600,000,000 Estimated number of customers whose data was stolen from Amazon subsidiary Zappos in 2012 : 24,000,000 Number of attempted cyberattacks the average global company experienced in 2013 : 16,856 Amount by which spending on mobile ads is projected to exceed that on newspaper ads this year : $1,000,000,000 Chance that a U.S. newspaper has a statehouse reporter : 1 in 3 Estimated amount of taxes and fees that Colorado has collected from the marijuana industry since legalization : $34,800,000 That Texas collects from undocumented workers each year : $1,608,534,000 Amount Texas has allocated for a three-month deployment of National Guard officers to the border : $38,000,000 Percentage of U.S. counties in which the proportion of racial minorities has grown since 2010 : 94 Percentage change in the proportion of racial minorities in Washington, D.C., since then : –0.8 Percentage of Newark, New Jersey, residents who are black : 54 Of pedestrians stopped by Newark police who are : 81 Portion of Newark police stops that are “legally unjustified” according to a Department of Justice study : 3/4 Percentage by which a black drug-misdemeanor defendant in Manhattan is more likely than a white one to be sent to prison : 15 Factor by which a person in Nevada is more likely than one in Massachusetts to be the target of a federal wiretap : 30 Percentage of Americans who said they were satisfied with their freedom to choose what to do with their lives in 2006 : 91 Percentage who say so today : 79 Number of U.S. states in which workers are not guaranteed paid parental leave : 47 Number of the world’s twenty other wealthiest nations in which they are not : 0 Age at which a female worker in Britain reaches peak earning power : 34 At which a male worker does : 50 Estimated number of women worldwide who were married before the age of 15 : 250,000,000 Number of countries that require their rulers to belong to a particular religion : 30 Percentage by which Americans overreport their religious attendance when asked over telephone rather than online : 13 Portion of Mormon missionaries expected to travel with specially configured iPads by 2015 : 1/3 Minimum number of churches in China demolished or given demolition notices by government order since February : 163 Estimated number of people executed by all countries other than China in 2012 : 682 By China : 3,000 Estimated portion of the past 100 executed U.S. prisoners who suffered from intellectual disabilties : 1/3 Minimum amount paid by the Museum of Death in Hollywood for Jack Kevorkian’s Thanatron suicide device : $25,000 Estimated height in feet of a memorial tree planted for George Harrison that died in July after an attack by beetles : 15 Estimated annual cost of invasive animal, plant, and microbe species to the U.S. economy : $120,000,000,000 Amount Americans spent last year on UNICEF donations to trick-or-treaters : $3,731,057 On Halloween costumes for their pets : $330,000,000 Figures cited are the latest available as of August 2014. “Harper’s Index” is a registered trademark.
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