Article posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:04pm

Billion dollars, the amount banks will earn this year from overdraft and bounced check fees

Percent of those fees that will be paid by the poorest 10 percent of the customer base

49,000

Dollars, the amount the State of California spends each year per prison inmate

8,000

Dollars spent per year per child in the Oakland public school system

Percent of American prisoners who were convicted of nonviolent crimes

Percent of bankruptcies traced to medical expenses between 2001 and 2007

Percent of those bankruptcies filed by people who had health insurance

Percent decline in the real price of soda over the last 30 years

Percent increase in the real price of fruit in the same period

Sources: New York Times; Cleveland Plain Dealer