- Pounds of coffee donated by Stumptown in 2013: 14,000
- Number of nonprofits Stumptown supported in 2013, including Street Roots: 160
- Units of carbon dioxide emission reduced by Stumptown in 2013: 9,300
- Number of cars removed from the road to equal 9,300 units of carbon dioxide emissions: 109
- Estimated cost of disconnecting Mt. Tabor’s reservoirs and relocating the water: $2.9 million
- Miles of sewer pipe in Portland: 2,500
- Rough percentage of sewer pipes in Portland over 80 years old: 33
- Number of units of affordable housing Portland Housing Bureau rehabilitated and preserved in 2013: 600
- Number of households Portland Housing Bureau prevented or ended homelessness for through short-term rent assistance in 2013: 2,231
- Percentage of households receiving short-term rent assistance and eviction prevention that retain their housing at six months after receiving assistance: 90
- Median annual cost of child care in Multnomah County in 2012: $12,180
- Care of a toddler as a percent of the annual income of a minimum wage worker in Multnomah County: 67
- Percentage increase of child care costs between 2004-2012 in Oregon: 13
- Percentage decrease of household income in the same period: 9
- Number of domestic workers in Oregon: 9,700
- Percentage of domestic workers in Oregon that are women: 95
- Percentage of Oregon’s private-sector workers that don’t have paid sick days: 40
- Percentage of food-service workers in Portland area that don’t have paid sick days: 81
- Number of cities that have enacted minimum standards for paid sick days: 4 (Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D.C.)
- Number of deaths throughout the U.S. associated with snowstorm and Arctic air in first weeks of January: 20
Sources: Stumptown Coffee Roasters; Portland Bureau of Internal Business Practices; Bureau of Environmental Services; Portland Housing Bureau; Oregon State University “Child Care and Education in Oregon and Its Counties: 2012” Study; Family Forward Oregon Education Fund; USA Today; The World (Coos County)
This article appears in 2014-01-17.