America by the Numbers
2,972 Number of newspapers that have closed in America since 2005. 2.5 Number of local newspapers that close for good every week. 3.5% Percentage of Americans aged 60 or older who never receive Social Security benefits, including some police officers, firefighters and the Amish. 6.1% Percentage of Americans with more than one Social Security Number. >100,000 Number of Americans with five or more Social Security Numbers. 15% Odds that someone else has used your Social Security Number. $45 billion Amount of taxpayer subsidies, grants, and contracts to eight Ivy League universities, plus Stanford and Northwestern Universities, between 2018-22. $50.9 billion Size of Harvard University’s tax-free endowment. 0.00 Harvard’s free speech ranking in 2023 (last). $1.8 billion Amount of money gifted by Qatar to Cornell University. $5.7 million Amount of taxpayer money Columbia University spent on producing voicemails from the year 2065. 140 Number of children who choked to death last year on …