Numbers in the news.23.6 billion Amount in dollars the U.S. spends yearly on imported toys, more than the next 10 highest toy-importing nations combined. SOURCE: HARPER'S 26% Percentage increase expected in U.S. home-heating bills this winter, over Last winter. SOURCE: USA TODAY USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. 12.7 Average number of credit cards per U.S. household--with an average debt of $9,312. SOURCE: THE NILSON REPORT 47 Average minutes per day that U.S. babies 6 months to 3 years old spend with videos and computers. SOURCE KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), or just Kaiser Family Foundation, is a U.S.-based non-profit, private operating foundation headquartered in Menlo Park, California. 11 million Number of American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of adults who Lack the basic reading skills for handling many everyday tasks. SOURCE: NATIONAL OF ADULT LITERACY literacy Ability to read and write. The term may also refer to familiarity with literature and to a basic level of education obtained through the written word. In ancient civilizations such as those of the Sumerians and Babylonians, literacy was the province of an elite |
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