America by the numbers

09 Dec 2004 by Jason Fried

We count therefore we are gives us the numbers:

Complaints against U.S. airlines dropped to 4,600 in 2003, nearly as low as in 1995… 163,010 bridges were considered deficient or obsolete… 87,525 governments across the nation, including 3,034 counties and 19,429 townships… Some 63.8 million Americans, nearly 29 percent of the population, volunteered their time… Women (32.2 percent) were more likely to than men (25.1 percent)… Potatoes were the most valuable U.S. crop, worth nearly $2.7 billion, followed by tomatoes and strawberries… We had a choice of 1,456 daily newspapers last year… A master’s degree netted Americans a median $60,445 in 2002, while a high school graduate could expect about $27,280 — $21,141 if you were a woman, $22,823 if you were black… Americans gave $30.4 billion to 64,843 nonprofit groups in 2002…