From the Drum Major Institute's 2007 Year In Review. A look back at the numbers that paint a picture of our nation in 2007.
Minimum number of hazardous children's toys recalled by Mattel in August 2007: 9,500,000
Number of employees on the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2007: 420
Number of CPSC staff who currently inspect toys, according to the New York Times: 1
Number of CPSC staff eliminated by the Bush administration's 2008 budget: 19
Average number of people watching the presidential primary debates: 2 million
Average number of people watching the first five weeks of American Idol's 2007 season: 33.5 million
Number of members of the Nobel Committee that awarded the Peace Prize to Al Gore in 2007: 5
Number of U.S. Supreme Court Justices who voted against Gore in Bush v. Gore to prevent a recount of ballots cast in Florida during the 2000 presidential election: 5
Number of states in the continental U.S. with areas that experienced at least moderate drought conditions in August: 36
Number of homes threatened by wildfires in California: 68,500
Average cost per day to Los Angeles County to house a female in the Los Angeles jail: $99.64
Cost of housing Paris Hilton in the Los Angeles jail for one day, including special staff for her needs: $1,109.78
Cost of one night in the Eiffel Suite at the Hilton Paris: $1,392
Number of families who may lose their homes due to foreclosures on their sub-prime mortgage loans: 2,200,000
Chance that a Hispanic or African-American borrower received a subprime loan compared to a white borrower with similar credit ratings: 3:1
Chance that the next president will be either the leading Hispanic or African-American candidate respectively according to the November 2007 odds on an online gaming website: 45:1, 5:1
Total amount of contributions raised by all 2008 presidential campaigns a full year before the election is held: $419,877,377
Number of times Rudy Giuliani has answered phone calls from his wife during speeches, conferences, and presentations, as estimated by the Wall Street Journal: 40
Length of time one New York man stood in line to get an iPhone: 6 hours
Length of the United Auto Worker's strike against Chrysler: 6 hours
Longest television appearance by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez on his television program Aló Presidente: 8 hours
Number of graduates of Pat Robertson's Regent University serving in President Bush's administration, according to Slate: 150
Likelihood that a Regent graduate will be employed in some form of government work: 1:6
Minimum no. of days of suspension including out-of-school, in-school, and Saturday detentions, received by three white students at Jena High School for hanging three nooses from the school's "white tree," under which only white students traditionally sat: 19
Number of years of prison 17-year-old Mychal Bell, one of the Jena 6, initially faced after being convicted of beating up a white student after the noose incident: 15
Median income of non-Hispanic white households and African-American households, respectively: $52,400 and $32,000
Date on which the median price of the American dollar to the Canadian dollar was 1/1: September 20, 2007
Last date on which parity was reached: January 14, 1977
Percentage tax rate of income from "carried interest," the compensation that fund mangers receive for managing investments: 15
Estimated percentage tax rate if carried interest were taxed as regular income: 35
Number of uninsured children in the United States: 8.6 million
Approximate number of currently uninsured children who would be covered by the bill Congress passed to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): 4 million
Date on which SCHIP was vetoed by President Bush: October 3, 2007
Percentage of population identifying with Democrats and Republicans in 2002, respectively: 43, 43
Percentage of population identifying with Democrats and Republicans in 2007, respectively: 50, 36
Number of warrants issued by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in anti-immigration raids in Nassau County, New York on September 24 and 26 during which 186 immigrants were arrested: 96
Number of warrants with wrong or outdated addresses, according to the Nassau County Police Commissioner: 90
Number of warrants that the special agent in charge of the raid said were needed to make arrests during the raid: 0
Number of agents used in the operation: 180
Number of agents who was wearing a cowboy hat: 1
Date on which President Bush said "I can barely speak English": August 11, 2007