Number of signatures a petition posted on whitehouse.gov must obtain within thirty days to “require a response” : 25,000

Number a petition calling for Texas to secede from the Union obtained within a week of being posted last November : 100,000

Amount set aside for states to aid homeowners in a 2012 government settlement with mortgage lenders : $2,500,000,000

Portion of that amount the states plan to use for other purposes : 2/5

Increase since 2009 in the number of people over the age of 55 who are working : 3,710,000

Ratio of U.S. farmers age 65 and older to those under the age of 35 : 7:1

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