FREE FACTS

Poverty rate of single-mother households:
44%

# of single-mother households in Washington State (Women's Work):
129,880

The average growth of world population in a single day (Zero Population Growth):
260,000 people

The estimated population growth of Seattle over the next two decades (Mayor's office):
72,000

% of professional artists who are women:
45%

% of woman-produced art in invitational museum art exhibits (Guerrilla Girls West):
15%

$ that the "Oregon Citizens for Recycling" (formed by Union Carbide, Dow Chemicals, and others) spent to defeat an Oregon ballot measure offering genuine recycling (Solomon and Cohen):
$2 million

$ of tax-exempt income an average US millionaire earned in 1992, due to a still current legal tax loophole (the IRS):
$124,792

% increase in the number of teachers employed in US education from 1975 to 1990:
16%

% increase in the number of nonteaching administrators and professionals in US education from 1975 to 1990 (American Federation of Teachers):
79%

For every $100 that Europeans pay for medicines, the approximate amount that Americans pay for the same medicines (Seattle P-I):
$200

# of US defense industry jobs lost 1990-1993 (The New Economy):
611,500

Approximate cost of 238 helicopter flights that military top brass took in 1993 from the Pentagon to Andrews Air Force Base, about 14 miles away:
$500,000

Cost of the above trips if they had been by car, a 25-minute ride (Associated Press):
$5,200

The proportion of workers worldwide exposed to toxic chemicals on the job:
2 in 3

The number of workers worldwide killed yearly by pesticides (UN Int'l Labor Organization):
40,000

% increase in the value of stock for small companies during Democratic presidencies:
20.5%

% increase for the same stock during Republican presidencies (Frank Russell Co.):
1.9%

% increase in credit card use 1992-93:
25%