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Last Month’s Index
[ July 2015 ]

Harper’s Index

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Portion of Americans in 1984 who believed that “most people can be trusted”

: 1/2
July 2015 • Source: Tom W. Smith, NORC at the University of Chicago

Number of the ten most challenged books at U.S. libraries last year whose main characters are non-white or LGBT

: 8
July 2015 • Source: American Library Association (Chicago)

Number of U.S. police officers who have been prosecuted in the past decade for shooting someone in the back

: 28
July 2015 • Source: Philip M. Stinson, Bowling Green State University (Ohio)

Portion of Syrians seeking asylum since 2011 who have been hosted by Turkey

: 2/5
July 2015 • Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Geneva)

In 2014

: 1/3
July 2015 • Source: Tom W. Smith, NORC at the University of Chicago

Percentage change since 1992 in the portion of jobs in the United States that require no high-school diploma

: +1
July 2015 • Source: Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University (Washington)

Number convicted

: 6
July 2015 • Source: Philip M. Stinson, Bowling Green State University (Ohio)

Amount the Secret Service has requested from Congress to build a replica of the White House

: $8,000,000
July 2015 • Source: Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

By the United States

: 1/7,700
July 2015 • Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Geneva)

Percentage of Americans with strong party loyalties who say that winning elections is more important than policy change

: 41
July 2015 • Source: Patrick R. Miller, University of Kansas (Lawrence)

Minimum number of months that George H. W. Bush’s home alarm was broken before the Secret Service fixed it last year

: 13
July 2015 • Source: U.S. Secret Service

Percentage of water consumed annually by California’s agriculture industry that is used to grow alfalfa to feed livestock

: 15
July 2015 • Source: California Department of Water Resources (Sacramento)

Among black residents of Ferguson, Missouri

: 0.6:1
July 2015 • Source: Justin Wolfers, The Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington)

Factor by which the mortality rate among hospital patients on television exceeds the actual rate

: 9
July 2015 • Source: Amir Hetsroni, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Karmei Yosef, Israel)

That require a high-school diploma but no further degree

: –12
July 2015 • Source: Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University (Washington)

Percentage change since 2000 in the number of black African immigrants living in the United States

: +137
July 2015 • Source: Pew Research Center (Washington)

Minimum percentage of human breast milk sold online that contains cow’s milk

: 10
July 2015 • Source: The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio)

Ratio of unincarcerated men to unincarcerated women aged 25 to 54 among white Americans

: 1:1
July 2015 • Source: Justin Wolfers, The Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington)

In the number of hours the average married U.S. mother spends engaged in active child care each week

: +88
July 2015 • Source: Melissa Milkie, University of Toronto

Percentage change since 1975 in the portion of U.S. mothers who work outside the home

: +51
July 2015 • Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Among black Americans

: 0.8:1
July 2015 • Source: Justin Wolfers, The Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington)

Percentage of applicants admitted last year to Stanford’s business school, the most selective in the country

: 7
July 2015 • Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business (Calif.)

Minimum percentage change since 2008 in the number of adult Americans prescribed medication for ADHD

: +53
July 2015 • Source: Express Scripts (St. Louis)

Percentage of Americans aged 18 to 31 with credit-card and student-loan debt, respectively, in 1989

: 43, 18
July 2015 • Source: U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Who play rugby

: +77
July 2015 • Source: Sports & Fitness Industry Association (Silver Spring, Md.)

To the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

: 0.24
July 2015 • Source: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Number of previously unknown fly species discovered in Los Angeles in the past year

: 30
July 2015 • Source: Brian V. Brown, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles)

Today

: 36, 40
July 2015 • Source: U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Estimated number of new movie screens that open in China each day

: 15
July 2015 • Source: Motion Picture Association of America (Washington)

Average age at which streaming-music listeners have their midlife crisis, according to Spotify

: 42
July 2015 • Source: Spotify (San Francisco)

Percentage of inmates in California men’s prisons who report being sexually assaulted while incarcerated

: 4
July 2015 • Source: Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine

Factor by which female college soccer players are more likely than male players to suffer concussions

: 2
July 2015 • Source: Datalys Center (Indianapolis)

Portion of high-school dropouts who say they left school to work

: 1/4
July 2015 • Source: Urban Institute (Washington)

Minimum number of people displaced since 2004 by World Bank projects

: 3,350,449
July 2015 • Source: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (Washington)

Amount by which annual lobbying expenditures by U.S. corporations exceed the Congressional budget

: $600,000,000
July 2015 • Source: Lee Drutman, New America Foundation (Washington)

Of transgender inmates in such prisons who do

: 59
July 2015 • Source: Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine

Portion of those dropouts who earn less than $10,000 per year

: 3/5
July 2015 • Source: Urban Institute (Washington)

Portion of part-time faculty at U.S. colleges whose households receive government assistance

: 1/4
July 2015 • Source: Ian Perry, University of California, Berkeley

Percentage change since 2009 in the number of Americans who play football

: –17
July 2015 • Source: Sports & Fitness Industry Association (Silver Spring, Md.)
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