That’s how much a proposed overhaul of immigration laws would reduce federal budget deficits over the next 10 years, according to a Congressional Budget Office report. The bill, S. 744, would revamp the U.S. visa system and offer the estimated...
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People from Mexico cheer and wave U.S. flags during a naturalization ceremony in San Diego, California, on March 20, 2013.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: $175 Billion
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The American and Mexican flags during a protest at the Arizona state capitol building in Phoenix.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 353
That’s how many U.S. counties were minority-majority in July 2012, according to Census Bureau estimates. The 353 counties where non-Hispanic whites accounted for less than a majority of all residents represent about 11 percent of all 3,143 counties or their...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, left, slips on a knee brace as Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-Fla., right, stretches while talking with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., in the Republicans' dugout before the 52nd annual Congressional Baseball Game at National Stadium in Washington on June 13, 2013.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 22-0
That was the margin of victory for Democrats over Republicans in the annual congressional baseball game yesterday. Democrats got a three-hit shutout from Rep. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, who also was the winning pitcher for Democrats in 2011 and 2012...
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President Barack Obama and Congressman Ed Markey attend a public rally at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury on June 12, 2013.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 61%
That’s the average vote share for Democratic presidential nominees in Massachusetts over the past four elections. Massachusetts has been the fourth-best state for Democratic presidential nominees during that period, behind Hawaii (63 percent), Rhode Island (61.5 percent) and New York...
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent looks for drug smugglers on the bank of the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border on May 21, 2013 near Hidalgo, Texas.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 84
That’s how many senators voted yesterday to advance an overhaul of immigration laws. The 84-15 vote means that the Senate will take up debate and amendments to a bill that would offer the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants a path...
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Morning commuters exit a subway turnstile in New York.
Bloomberg By the Numbers: 77
Women earned 77 percent of what men did in 2011 for the same job, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics cited by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a Washington-based research group. The figures for the most recent year available were cited as...
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Welders work on a joint between two sections of pipe during construction of the Gulf Coast Project pipeline in Prague, Oklahoma, on March 11, 2013.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 32
That’s how many consecutive months U.S. nonfarm payrolls have climbed. Payrolls rose a higher-than-forecast 175,000 in May, according to Labor Department figures released June 7. The economy has added about 5.7 million jobs during the previous 32 months, at an...
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Rep. John Dingell on Capitol Hill in this 2005 file photo.
John Dingell by the Numbers
Rep. John Dingell today becomes the longest-serving member of Congress in history, a milestone noted by political luminaries including President Barack Obama, who was born about six years after the Michigan Democrat began serving in December 1955. Here’s a look...
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A home under construction in Glenelg, Maryland, on May 30, 2013.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 24%
That’s the share of Americans who have a positive feeling about the national economy, according to the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index for the week ended June 2. While more than three-fourths of respondents said the economy was either “not so...
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Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the House's longest serving member, more than 50 years, at a campaign speech in Ann Arbor, Mich., in this 2010 file photo.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 2
That’s how many current members of Congress are veterans of World War II. They are Michigan Democrat John Dingell, who served in the Army from 1944 to 1946, and Texas Republican Ralph Hall, who was in the Navy from 1942...
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