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- American Workers Let 662 Million Vacation Days Go Unused Last Year
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American Workers Let 662 Million Vacation Days Go Unused Last Year
And 24 other facts you should probably know.
Average number of years the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans outlive the poorest 1 percent: 10 to 15 1
Amount, in added benefits from Social Security and other social programs, that an affluent American receives from that life expectancy inequality: $130,000
Percent of 2015 crowdfunding campaigns on GiveFoward, Plumfund, FundRazr, and Red Basket that raised money for personal medical costs: 41 2
Percent of those campaigns that were fully funded: 11
Average cost of platform and processing fees charged for each $100 donation on GiveForward and FundRazr: $8.20 3
Total number of vacation days unused by American employees in 2016: 662 million 4
Percent of men who say vacation time is “extremely” important to them: 49
Of women: 58
Percent of men who used all their allotted vacation days: 48
Of women: 44
Added income women working full-time would have earned in 2016 had they been paid the same hourly wage as their male counterparts: $42 billion 5
Number of the five fastest-growing cities in the United States that are in Texas: 4 6
Increase in median cost of a single-family home in Texas between 2010 and 2017: $90,000 7
Change in Texas minimum wage between 2010 and 2017: $0 8
Weekly hours a Texan working at the minimum wage would need to work to afford a two-bedroom rental: 117 9
Number of states in which working 40 hours a week at minimum wage is enough to pay for a two-bedroom rental: 0
Rank of Texas among states with most workers earning at or below minimum wage: 1 10
Tons of plastics that humans have created since large-scale production of the synthetic materials began in the early 1950s: 9.1 billion 11
Tons that have already become waste: 6.9 billion
Percent of plastic waste that has been recycled: 9
Tons of food scraps Californians throw away each year: 6 million 12
Number of California landfills that have the potential to emit “significant” quantities of methane: 370 13
Average factor by which the atmospheric warming potential of methane is greater than that of carbon dioxide: 32 14
Amount to date of California cap-and-trade revenue appropriated for greenhouse gas emission reduction programs: $3.4 billion 15
Amount of that revenue allocated to a new food waste prevention program: $5 million 16
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Stephen Miller
is a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado and a former senior editor of YES!
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