0: The number of consultants and politicians convicted for defrauding the City of Harrisburg.
1: Governor Corbett is the highest paid Governor in the Unites States with a salary of $187,256
2: The number of former Pennsylvania Speakers of the House incarcerated.
3: The number of years since the first new bank was created in America. The Bank of Bird-in-Hand was approved by the FDIC and raised $17 million in capital.
5: The number of nuclear generating stations operating in Pennsylvania.
39: Pennsylvania’s ranking among states in the number of women holding elected office.
$3.50: The average price for a gallon of gas and a gallon of milk in 2013.
$3.61: The average price for a gallon of gas in 2012.
5: The number of ballots it took to elect Pope Francis.
7.0%: The unemployment rate in America.
$7.25: The minimum wage in Pennsylvania.
8: The Pennsylvania legislature passed a law that allows potatoes to be packaged in eight pound bags.
11%: The senior poverty rate in Pennsylvania.
12.1%: The unemployment rate in the Eurozone.
16: The number of days the United States’ government was shut down.
18.5’: The height of the Pennsylvania grown Douglas fir tree selected as the White House Christmas Tree.
20%: The child poverty rate in Pennsylvania.
26%: The annual increase in oil production in North Dakota.
28%: The percentage increase in the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest. By comparison, 59% of Pennsylvania – or 16.7 million acres – are covered by forest.
29+: The number of states plus Washington, D.C. where the number of fatal drug overdoses exceeded the number of people killed by motor vehicles.
30: The age of Mark Zuckerburg.
38%: The percent of decline in America’s federal budget deficit. However, the deficit for 2013 was $680 billion.
40 years: Railroad accidents in 2013 in the continental United States accounted for almost 1.15 million gallons of spilled crude oil. That total is more than all spills in the last 40 years combined.
50: The number of Americans who die daily from an overdose of prescription drugs or twice the number of people that overdose every day from cocaine and heroin combined.
70 mph: Sen. Joe Scarnatti (R-Jefferson) is proposing to make a speed limit of seventy miles an hour along some stretches of Pennsylvania highways a legislative priority.
$80: Hourly amount paid to former CEO of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to serve as a consultant for six months. Mr. Conti received $67,728 dollars and was reimbursed for over $1,600 in expenses including a $108 per month iPhone bill.
195 mph: The maximum sustained wind speed of Typhoon Haiyann.
$1,250: The price for the most expensive Super Bowl Ticket in 2013 offered by the National Football League. In 2014, the price increased to $2,600.
$3,268.18: Monthly pension for former state Senator Joseph Loeper, (R- Delaware County). Mr. Loeper, a Harrisburg lobbyist, admitted to violating federal tax laws and pled guilty to obstructing an IRS investigation.
1961: The year President Eisenhower warned Americans about the power of “the military-industrial complex.” (January 17, 1961)
1983: The year Edward Snowden was born.
$5,192: The amount state lawmakers spent for two exercise bikes for their private Capitol fitness center.
3,600: The number of staff the Nuclear Regulatory Commission furloughed during the government shutdown. Full staffing is 3,950.
$10,586: The monthly pension underwritten by taxpayers for indicted former state senator Sen. Raphael Musto. Mr. Musto (D-Luzerne) was charged with corruption by the federal government in 2010.
12,000: The number of lobbyists in Washington, D.C.
$18,340: The annual state pension for former state senator and current Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz (D-Philadelphia).
30,000 metric tons: The amount of high-level nuclear waste each nuclear unit produces in one year. Pennsylvania is home to eleven nuclear units located at five nuclear stations. They all store radioactive waste onsite.
$31,529.16: The amount of pension paid to Joe Conti – former CEO of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board – at the same time he was a part time consultant to the LCB.
$31,675: The average student loan debt of a graduating college student in Pennsylvania.
35,000: The estimated number of Pennsylvanians diagnosed with autism.
$63,405.85: The amount the Pennsylvania House of Representatives charged taxpayers for their newspapers since 2010. In 2013, the cost was $13,807.65.
$84,012: The minimum wage for a Pennsylvania lawmaker.
$87,750: The amount the Pennsylvania Senate spent on bottled water since 2008.
$90,867.48: U.S. Congressman Joe Pitt’s annual state pension. He also collects a $174,000 annual salary as a Congresswoman.
106,105: The number of Americans who signed up for Obama Care in the first month.
$174,000: The minimum wage for a U.S. Congressman.
$206,032: Chief Justice Ronald Castille’s salary. Mr. Castille was elected to a ten year term in 2013 but must resign on December 31, 2014.
$286,118: The annual pension for retired state lawmaker Frank Oliver (D- Philadelphia).
$301,605.79: The amount taxpayers paid for security details for Gov. Corbett, Mrs. Corbett, Lt. Gov. Cawley and Mrs. Cawley for July, August and September, 2013.
$400,000: Annual salary for the President of the United States which does not include a $50,000 nontaxable expense account.
$530,000: The annual salary for Russell Wilson, quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks.
$1 million: The amount of money former Pennsylvania Speaker of the House John Perzel owes taxpayers in restitution. He has not made any payments.
$1,932,779: Former Penn State head football coach Bill O’Brien’s salary in 2013 or almost a million-dollar raise.
$2 million: The amount state lawmakers received for their lodging, meals and per diems in 2012.
6.1 million: The number of Americans who abuse or misuse prescription drugs.
$5.9 million: The estimated cost of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral.
$6.2 million: Pitt, Penn State and Temple spent $6.2 million between 2008-2012 in lobbying Harrisburg lawmakers. The universities collected about $3 billion in subsidies, but remain exempt from many Right to Know laws.
$10 million: The amount Tom Wolf (D-York) committed to spend to win the Democratic nomination to become Pennsylvania’s next governor.
$16 million: The annual salary for Peyton Manning, quarterback for the Denver Broncos.
$16.9 million: There are 82 games in a National Basketball Association regular season. Andrew Bynum, a center for the Philadelphia 76ers, missed the entire season with a right knee injury, and was paid a $16.9 million salary.
17 million: Number of children living in poverty in America.
$20 million: There are 162 games in a Major League Baseball’s regular season. Ryan Howard, a first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies, missed half the season with a left knee injury, and was paid a $20 million salary.
49 million: The number of Katy Perry’s twitter followers.
50 million: Number of Americans living in poverty.
$61 million: The amount of money the New York Yankees owe suspended baseball player Alex Rodriguez.
$142.4 million: The price paid for Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucien Freud.” This is the highest price paid for an auctioned work of art.
$307 million: The Pennsylvania’s legislature’s budget. Last year the cost to operate this august body increased by $8 million to $307 million. The House spent $178 million, the Senate $96 million.
$1 billion: The amount of stock Facebook donated to charity .
1.2 billion: The current worldwide membership of the Catholic faith.
$13 billion: The penalty JP Morgan paid to resolve civil litigation relating to its residential mortgage-backed securities.
$17.8 billion: The unfunded liability of the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System.
$29.5 billion: The unfunded liability of Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System.
$30 billion: The amount of money Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista lost in 2013.
$67 billion: The debt left behind by Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad.
$1.2 trillion: The aggregate amount Americans owe in student loans.
$4 trillion: The Federal Reserve Bank’s balance sheet.
Sources: Amish Business, ASSERT-PA Autism, Bloomburg News, CBS News, Bureau of Labor and Statistics, Center for Responsive Politics, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ESPN, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Financial Times, Financial Times, December 31, 2013 and January 3, 2014, The Nature Conservancy, the National Football League, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Patriot News, Pennsylvania Independent, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh- Tribune, Public School Employees’ Retirement System, Rock the Capital, State Employees’ Retirement System , Times-Shamrock, The Book of States: 2013, Trust for America’s Health, WHTM-27 ABC, WTAE- 4 ABC, US Energy Information Administration, U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and USA Today).