Recent News by the Numbers

I. Minor Cost Increases Create Protests
20c -Per day use fee for calls on instant messaging apps proposed by the Lebanese government --which prompted 2 million protesters to march in October.

4c - Subway fare hike, in US currency, that sparked a million protesters to fill the streets of Santiago, Chile, on October 25.

25% - Gasoline price increase in Ecuador after the government repealed fuel subsidies, leading thousands of demonstrators to demand the move be reversed, along with other IMF-imposed austerity measures.

500 - Police officers redeployed to prevent fare evasion in the New York City subway on November 1, more than 1,000 protesters marched to call for an end to police brutality and for spending taxpayer funds on more beneficial social programs. (Source: Teddy Ostrow, The Nation, November 25, 2019.)

II. Voter Purges
17M - US voters purged from states' voter rolls from 2016 to 2018.

15 - States with more-restrictive voter ID laws than they had in 2010.

12 - States that have made it harder to register to vote since 2010.

4 - States that made it more difficult for students to vote since 2010.

1,500 - Twitter accounts suspended for postings intentionally misleading election-related content, such as the wrong day of the 2018 midterms.

235K - Number of voters that Ohio planned to purge from its rolls this year.

20% - Percentage of that number who were active voters who would have been erroneously prevented from voting. (Source: Alice Markham-Cantor, The Nation, November 11/18, 2019.)

III. Fleeing and Resettled Refugees
37K - Daily number of people forced to flee their homes because of persecution and violence.

70.8M - Number of forcibly displaced people world-wide, according to the United Nations.

26M - Number of refugees world-wide, according to the UN.

0.4% - Percentage of refugees resettled by the UN.

36% - Percentage registered by the UN's High Commissioner for refugees who come from Syria or Afghanistan.

207K - Number of refugees settled in the United States in 1980.

0 - Number settled in the US in October -- the first time the country hasn't taken in a single refugee since monthly records were started nearly 30 years ago. (Source: Mary Akdemir, December 2/9, 2019.)

ADDENDUMS:
*Attorney General William Barr has accused the Democrats of a "war" against a "duly elected government" at a conference of the Federalist Society.

*At a rally, Trump acted out a orgasm directed at Lisa Page, a FBI agent, who carried out an       email romantic exchange with another FBI agent, both critical of Trump. He acted out: "I love you, Peter. Oh! God! How I love you!"

*At the G-7 meeting, Trump told French President Emmanuel Macron that he could send him some "ISIS fighters" if he wanted  them. Macron: "Let's be serious."

*The Second Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that Deuteche Bank and Capital One must comply with an order to turn over a broad range of financial records. They ordered "prompt compliance."

*Trump called Macron's comment that NATO is experiencing "brain death," "very nasty."