That’s the share of black voters eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election who cast a ballot. Blacks outvoted non-Hispanic whites, who had a 64.1 percent turnout rate, according to a Census Bureau report released yesterday. It’s the first...
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Eileen Woofford, 84, waited in line to cast her vote at Cleveland Avenue Baptist Church on November 6, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 66.2%
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A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the trading day on May 7, 2013.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 15,056.2
That’s where the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed yesterday, marking the first time the index finished above 15,000. The Dow, a price-weighted average of 30 blue-chip stocks, rose 87.31 points. The Standard and Poor’s 500 Index rose 0.5 percent to...
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Republican candidate for the open Congressional seat of South Carolina, Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, greets U.S. House of Representatives Democratic candidate for the state of South Carolina Elizabeth Colbert Busch following their debate at the Citadel on April 29, 2013 in Charleston.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 58%
That’s the share of the vote Republican Mitt Romney received last year in South Carolina’s 1st District, which is hosting a special House election today (read about that race and the broader fight for control of the House here). The...
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A Bank of America ATM in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: $87,600
That’s the amount of campaign contributions that U.S. Rep. Mel Watt, President Barack Obama’s nominee to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, received from Bank of America Corp. employees, beginning with his first House run in 1992. That’s more than Watt, a North...
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury building in Washington, D.C.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: $35 Bln
That’s how much government debt the Treasury Department projects it will pay down in this year’s second quarter. That would mark the first net decline in debt since 2007, before the deepest recession since the Great Depression took hold. The...
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Employees load a washer and dryer into customer's car at the loading docks of Nebraska Furniture Mart in Omaha, Neb.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 2.5%
That’s the annualized rate at which the U.S. economy grew in the first quarter, according to an estimate by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. The figure refers to the rise in the gross domestic product — the value...
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Job seekers fill out applications during the NYC Restaurant Job Expo at the Gabarron Foundation in New York, on April 9, 2013.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 339,000
That’s how many first-time claims for U.S. unemployment benefits were filed in the week ended April 20. The number represents a six-week low and a decrease of 16,000 from the 355,000 applications for jobless assistance filed the previous week. “Fewer...
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Former President George W. Bush participates in a signing ceremony for the joint use agreement between the National Archive and the George W. Bush Presidential Center on April 24, 2013, in Dallas.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 47%
That’s former President George W. Bush’s approval rating, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Fifty percent said they disapproved of the way Bush handled his eight-year presidency ending in 2009, according to the survey conducted April 17-21. Bush has...
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Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) is hugged by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) while walking with his wife Melodee Hanes, right, at the Capitol on April 23, 2013 in Washington, DC. It was announced earlier that Baucus, after 36 years in the Senate, will not seek reelection in 2014.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 53.7%
That’s the share of Max Baucus’s life that the Montana Democrat has spent in Congress. Baucus, who announced his retirement yesterday, was elected to the House in 1974 as a member of a big class of House Democrats, known as...
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Senate Budget Committee staff members hand out copies of the Obama Administration's proposed FY 2014 federal budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 67%
That’s the share of the higher taxes under President Barack Obama’s budget proposal that the top 1 percent of U.S. taxpayers would pay in 2023. The figure comes from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, which yesterday released an analysis of...
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