•There are 3.1 million teachers in the U.S
•73.5 million children in the U.S
•
4 billionaires
in Arizona
•400 + billionaires in the U.S
•854
+ billionaires in the world
•
930,000 + multimillionaires (MSNBC,
Brewster, 2006)
•8.3 + millionaires (MSNBC, Brewster,2006)
•
14 million homes have 500,000 or more (MSNBC, Brewster, 2006)
•
5.4 million people lived in poverty in 2006
•
45 million people were without health care insurance 2004
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The U.S spent 60 billion dollars to keep prisoners incarcerated
(2006 L.A. Times)
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Teenage pregnancy cost the nation 9.1 billion dollars in 2004
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Teenage pregnancy cost the state of Arizona 252 million dollars in 2004