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Last Month’s Index
[ February 2015 ]

Harper’s Index

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In New York City

: 67
February 2015 • Source: N.Y.C. Department of Homeless Services

Average annual salary predicted by white Americans for a worker who is described as “black”

: $29,420
February 2015 • Source: Erika Hall, Emory University (Atlanta)

Minimum number of times since 1996 that lawyers in capital cases have accidentally missed the final appeal deadline

: 80
February 2015 • Source: The Marshall Project (N.Y.C.)

Percentage of people living in the developing world who have a favorable view of the oil and gas industries

: 69
February 2015 • Source: Burson-Marsteller (N.Y.C.)

By Utah police

: 46
February 2015 • Source: Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City)

Percentage increase in the annual number of polio cases in Pakistan since 2005

: 857
February 2015 • Source: World Health Organization (Geneva)

Percentage of Americans who do not feel secure sharing private information over social media

: 81
February 2015 • Source: Pew Research Center (Washington)

Who is described as “African-American”

: $37,040
February 2015 • Source: Erika Hall, Emory University (Atlanta)

Portion of the hundred best-paid U.S. CEOs who earn more annually than their companies pay in federal taxes

: 1/3
February 2015 • Source: Center for Effective Government (Washington)

Amount a Russian man was fined last October for delivering a pizza by drone

: $1,092
February 2015 • Source: Oleg Pontefilenok, Copter Express (Moscow)

Percentage of electricity consumed in the United States that is generated from renewable sources

: 13
February 2015 • Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

Number of days an Iranian woman spent in prison last year for attending a men’s volleyball game

: 157
February 2015 • Source: Human Rights Watch (N.Y.C.)

Of people living in the developed world who do

: 47
February 2015 • Source: Burson-Marsteller (N.Y.C.)

Then eating it

: 1
February 2015 • Source: Marion Island Marine Mammal Programme, University of Pretoria (South Africa)

Percentage of Americans and Chinese, respectively, who believe their government is “on the side of average citizens”

: 12, 80
February 2015 • Source: Burson-Marsteller (N.Y.C.)

Number of reported cases in the past decade of an Antarctic fur seal having sex with a king penguin

: 4
February 2015 • Source: Marion Island Marine Mammal Programme, University of Pretoria (South Africa)

Number of people killed by gang and drug violence in Utah since 2010

: 39
February 2015 • Source: Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City)

Date on which Bob Marley’s estate announced the launch of Marley Natural, a “global cannabis brand”

: 11/18/2014
February 2015 • Source: Privateer Holdings (Seattle)

Date on which Apple’s market capitalization first exceeded that of the Russian stock market

: 8/28/2014
February 2015 • Source: Bloomberg L.P. (N.Y.C.)

Chances that a Protestant in Brazil claims to have witnessed a divine healing

: 7 in 10
February 2015 • Source: Pew Research Center (Washington)

Number of the procedures performed by a single doctor over a ninety-minute period

: 83
February 2015 • Source: Human Rights Watch (N.Y.C.)

Chance that an American getting married in 1960 had been married before

: 1 in 8
February 2015 • Source: Pew Research Center (Washington)

Estimated number of times the explosions will disturb marine mammals

: 9,600,000
February 2015 • Source: National Resources Defense Council (Washington)

That an American getting married today has been

: 1 in 4
February 2015 • Source: Pew Research Center (Washington)

Number of homeless people in Tokyo for every 10,000 residents

: 1
February 2015 • Source: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Tokyo)

Estimated number of U.S. preschoolers who spend part of every night at a day-care facility

: 410,640
February 2015 • Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.)

Number of explosives the U.S. Navy plans to detonate in the Pacific between now and 2018

: 260,000
February 2015 • Source: U.S. Navy (Arlington, Va.)

Amount the beverage industry spent lobbying against the tax for every vote cast against the initiative

: $238
February 2015 • Source: ALZA Strategies (Sacramento, Calif.)

Amount for which a watercolor painting by Adolf Hitler was bought at auction in Germany last November

: $160,000
February 2015 • Source: Auktionshaus Weidler (Nuremberg, Germany)

Amount of a tax on each ounce of soda sold in Berkeley, California, passed last year by ballot initiative

: $0.01
February 2015 • Source: City Clerk Department (Berkeley, Calif.)

Number of seconds after leaving its carrier plane that Virgin Galactic’s commercial spaceship disintegrated in October

: 15
February 2015 • Source: National Transportation Safety Board (Washington)

Number of women who received tubectomies last November as part of a mass sterilization drive in Bilaspur, India

: 137
February 2015 • Source: Human Rights Watch (N.Y.C.)

Amount a Canadian woman owes a Hawaii hospital after giving birth there while on vacation last year

: $850,000
February 2015 • Source: Jennifer Huculak (Humboldt, Canada)

Estimated number of U.S. citizens targeted for surveillance by the U.S. Postal Service in the past year

: 49,000
February 2015 • Source: Office of the Inspector General, United States Postal Service (Arlington, Va.)

Of electricity consumed in Germany

: 24
February 2015 • Source: Global Wind Energy Council (Brussels)

Amount for which the owner of happybirthday.com is attempting to sell the domain name

: $2,000,000
February 2015 • Source: Domainmarket.com (Potomac, Md.)

Amount for which he sold sex.com in 2010

: $13,000,000
February 2015 • Source: Domainmarket.com (Potomac, Md.)

Number of these women who subsequently died

: 16
February 2015 • Source: Human Rights Watch (N.Y.C.)

Who believe their government is “on the side of corporations”

: 73, 17
February 2015 • Source: Burson-Marsteller (N.Y.C.)
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