Harper's Index

[Scuba]

http://harpers.org/archive/2014/10/harpers-index-367/

Percentage of U.S. Republicans who say they could not live on the minimum wage : 69

Who support raising it : 37

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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

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Amount Americans spent last year on UNICEF donations to trick-or-treaters : $3,731,057

On Halloween costumes for their pets : $330,000,000

Many more at the link.

[drm604]

1. Thank You!

I always enjoyed Harper's Index. I had no idea that they have them indexed online. Great find.