Numbers

66.2%

— Turnout rate for blacks in the 2012 presidential election according to new figures from the Census Bureau, beating white electoral turnout for the first time in American history.

1 in 20 million

— Chance of dying in a terrorist attack in the United States from 2007 to 2011, according to Richard Barrett, coordinator of the United Nations al Qaeda/Taliban Monitoring Team.

$20 Million

— How much money Fleet Week brings to New York City every year, according to the Daily Beast. Fleet Week was canceled this year due to sequestration.

$22.9 million

— Potential cost of Margaret Thatcher's funeral service, according to Salon.

28 years

— How long it takes to get a one-bedroom apartment after you sign up to Washington, D.C.'s affordable housing list, according to the Washington Post. 70,000 people wait for 8,000 units. The D.C. Housing Authority will bar the list from all new applicants today for the first time in the city's history.

88,000

— Number of American jobs added in March. In February, the US added 236,000 jobs. The unemployment rate remains at 7.6%.

52%

— of Americans support making marijuana legal, according to the Pew Research Center. It is the highest support for the drug in Pew's 40 years of polling on the issue. In 1969, 84% of Americans opposed legalizing marijuana.

$169,313

— Cost per flight-hour of a B-2A Spirit Stealth Bomber, according to Battleland. On Thursday, the Pentagon sent two Stealth Bombers on a round-trip flight from Missouri to South Korea in response to North Korean threats.

$4 Trillion

— The latest estimate, here, of the cost to the U.S. of waging the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, from Harvard researcher Linda Bilmes. The eventual cost could reach $6 trillion, she estimates, or nearly $20,000 per American.

56%

— Of Hispanics have a favorable view of Congress, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll released today. For Americans overall, that number dips to 30%. Only 35% of Latinos approved of Congress in November 2011.

44%

— Of troops from Afghanistan and Iraq report difficulties after they return, according to a new study by the Institute of Medicine. Significant numbers suffered traumatic brain injuries, symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance misuse or abuse.

$350,000

— deficit the Senate barbershop has run per year for the last 15 years, according to "The Weekly Standard." Senate Sergeant at Arms Terry Gainer will take the barbershop private this year through leveraging sequestration.
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