By the Numbers

9

Percent more jobs created by fixing old roads as opposed to building new ones

19

Percent more jobs created by investing in buses and trains than investing in new roads

80

Percent of the transport requests by states for stimulus package funds that would go to roads, mostly new ones

56

Percent of respondents who regard their local government as somewhat or very open (40 percent regard them as somewhat or very secretive)

15,000

Foreclosed homes abandoned in Cleveland, Ohio

2 – 3

Percent of energy wasted nationally by “line loss,” or energy used to transport other energy over transmission lines

3

Years in prison, the sentence Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi was given for throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush during his visit to Iraq in December

0.6

The percent of all major media coverage devoted to health care issues since January 1, 2007

Sources: Brookings Institute; New York Times; Journalism.org