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For the Record: January 3-16, 2014

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by Street Roots Staff | 13 Jan 2014

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

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