Saturday, March 10, 2007

NUMBERS

107,501
seating capacity of University of Michigan Stadium
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40,025
total fall 2006 enrollment for University of Michigan
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13,800
decline in Detroit Public Schools enrollment from fall 2005 to fall 2006
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3000
number of health care workers crossing from Canada to work in Michigan daily
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6,600
persons employed in gambling industries in Detroit, Livonia and Dearborn
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$688,000,000
dollars contributed to education funding in 2006 from the Michigan State Lottery
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1,213,026
recreation visitors to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in 2006
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1,881,240
Michigan's rural population
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61.5%
percent of Michigan farms sized 1-99 acres

0.9%
percent of Michigan farms sized 2000 or more acres
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16.7%
poverty rate in Clare County

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9 (1%)
persons in poverty in Bingham Farms
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