Numbers

By By Melissa August, Elizabeth L. Bland, Sean Gregory, Janice M. Horowitz, Lisa Mclaughlin and Rebecca Winters Sunday, Jan. 12, 2003
    • 800,000 Estimated number of jobless workers whose unemployment benefits will be extended for 13 weeks under legislation enacted by the new Republican-controlled Congress

    1 million Number of unemployed workers Democrats say the bill left behind

    $452,000 Annual salary that members of the government's new auditing board, charged with overseeing the accounting profession, voted to pay themselves

    $400,000 President Bush's annual salary

    64,684 U.S. death toll from the flu in 1998-99

    16,263 U.S. death toll from flu in 1976-77

    65% Percentage of adults 65 and older who today get flu shots

    $5 billion Amount that Americans borrowed for college tuition for the 2001-02 school year

    $1 billion Amount they borrowed for the 1995-96 school year

    Sources: New York Times (2); JAMA; Wall Street Journal; McDonald's