Just The Facts: 1997-98 edition

The economy

1. Growth in private-sector employment, 1996
2. Growth in private-sector employment, 1992-94
3. Growth in private-sector employment, 1995-April 1997
4. Change in manufacturing employment, 1996
5. Change in FIRE-sector employment, 1996
6. Change in total government employment, 1996
7. Population change, 1990-96
8. Per-capita personal income growth, 1995
9. Major new corporate facilities, 1996
10. Fortune 500 headquarters per million residents, 1996
11. New business incorporations, 1995
12. Percent of nonfarm workers in the FIRE sector, 1996
13. Assets of commercial banks, 1996
14. Patents issued per 100,000 residents, 1995
15. Milk production, 1995

Taxes and spending

16. State and local taxes per capita, 1997
17. State and local taxes per $1,000 income, 1997
18. State-only taxes per capita, 1995
19. Local taxes per capita, 1993
20. State corporate income taxes per capita, 1995
21. Property taxes per capita, 1993
22. Death & gift taxes per capita, 1995
23. State tax cuts/increases, 1995-96
24. State and local spending per capita, 1993
25. State and local government employees per 10,000 residents, 1994
26. Change in state government employment, 1996
27. Average annual pay, state/local employees, 1994
28. State and local debt per capita, 1993
29. State government bond ratings, 1996
30. Average tax per acre of farmland, 1994
31. Federal grants to state-local governments, 1995
32. Per capita federal tax burden by state, 1996

The cost of creating jobs

33. Electrical rates per KwH, industrial customers
34. Electrical rates per KwH, commercial customers
35. Natural gas cost for industrial users, 1993
36. Minimum employer payment for UI, 1996
37. Average duration of UI benefits, 1996
38. Workers' compensation comparative costs, 1996
39. Million-dollar liability awards as percent of total
40. Median compensatory damage award, 1992-95
41. Deficient bridges as percent of total, 1994
42. Employer-paid health care expenditures per job, 1994

Health, education, welfare, environment

43. Medicaid cost per recipient, 1995
44. Medicaid cost per aged recipient, 1995
45. Medicaid cost per AFDC child, 1995
46. Change in infant mortality rate, 1990-95
47. Occupational fatalities per 100,000 workers, 1993-95
48. State & local welfare spending per capita, 1993
49. Child support collections per $1 admin. cost, 1994
50. Public school costs per pupil, 1996
51. Pupil-teacher ratio in public schools, 1995
52. High school graduation rate, 1994
53. Emissions by manufacturers, per manufacturing job
54. Percent of rivers and streams "polluted," 1994