By the Numbers

$2.4 trillion

Reduction in tax revenues from the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts over 10 years

$474 billion

Amount of the cuts that came in Bush’s first term

$654 billion

Value of tax cuts in President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Job Creation Act of 2010

20, 18

Times more wealth the typical white family has than the median black family and the median Hispanic family, respectively

Percent of black households who had no assets or were in debt in 2009

Percent of white households who had no assets or were in debt in 2009

$206 billion

The amount paid to private contractors since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

$31 billion

Minimum estimate of the amount of that money that was wasted, according to the bipartisan Congressional Commission on Wartime Contracting

260,000

Number of private workers that have been sent to Iraq and Afghanistan by the Pentagon and the State Dept. since the start of the wars

Sources: Center for American Progress; Pew Research Center; New York Times