Number of lights at ZooLights in 2013: 1.5 million
Number of acres the Oregon Department of Forestry owns: 16 million
Largest donation given through the 2013 Willamette Week Give!Guide: $20,000
Number of organizations receiving donations through 2013 Willamette Week Give!Guide: 130
Number of donors Under 35 who gave at the Willamette Week Give!Guide: 2,065
Total amount raised at the Willamette Week Give!Guide: $2,424,058
Oregon unemployment rate in November: 7.3%
National umemployment rate in November: 7%
The number of tourists to the Portland Metro Area in 2012:: 8.1 million
The money generated in direct spending from tourists in 2012: $4.1 billion.
Number of jobs the travel industry supports in the Portland region: 29,200.
The amount of money made from those jobs in 2012: $898 million
Budget for Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1978: $83 billion
Budget for Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2012: 37.4 billion
Number of public housing units lost between 1995 and 2011: 290,588
Number of jail and prison cells created during that same time period: 830,000
Homeless mothers who will experience domestic violence at some point: 90%
Number of people living in poverty in the United States: 46.2 million, 15.1 percent of the population.
Estimated number of children who experienced homelessness in 2012: 1,065,794
Source: Travel Portland; findthedata.org; 2013 Summary of Legislation Report, Oregon State Legislature; Western Regional Advocacy Project, Pointstreak; Give!Guide Willamette Week; Bureau of Labor Statistics
This article appears in 2014-01-03.