A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
72
Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76
The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
51
According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
223
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
217
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
75
Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
70