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By the Numbers

11,000

Workers that Michigan has cut from state government since 2000

8

Number of prisons Michigan has closed since 2000

$25 billion

Estimated cost of the Troubled Assets Relief Program, widely known as the bailout

$40 million

The amount that Wells Fargo collected in additional overdraft fees annually by processing transactions in order of largest to smallest amounts, rather than when they were made, beginning in 2002

80

Percent of traffic at the top 4,600 news and information sites that went to the top 7 percent of websites last year

11

Percent of Internet users who use more than six websites to get their news

22.3

Million viewers who tune in to network evening newscasts each weeknight

4

Million viewers who tune in to cable news at any given moment during prime time

50

Percent, the size of network news staffs today compared to their 1980s peak

Sources: Washington Post; ProPublica; journalism.org