I need an interesting government statistic?

[ConservativeMan55]

I need an interesting government statistic to write about. It needs to be a one page "feature article"

Any thoughts?

[ConservativeMan55]

Where would I find government statistics?

Any interesting enough to write about?

Immigration anyone?

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[durasell]

http://www.bls.gov/

[BikerNYC]

I need an interesting government statistic?

Here's one. 92% of government statistics are uninteresting.

[ConservativeMan55]

Thanks!

[Red Badger]

Where would you find interesting government statistics?

Any PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECT!.............

[Gipper08]

try the National Tax Limitation Committee.

[ConservativeMan55]

There's a lot of those....

[wolfpat]

Don't forget that 79.2% of statistics are made up.

[Reaganesque]

I did a quick Google search and came up with (among others) Fedstats.gov. Hope that helps.

[hispanarepublicana]

Those "pounds of (insert food here) eaten per person" are always interesting.

[ConservativeMan55]

Oooh Federal...I hadn't thought of using that word to search with yet!

Thanks!

[ConservativeMan55]

Pounds of potatoes eaten per person?

Hmmmmm

[pbear8]

How about 90% of our tax money is wasted?

[Red Badger]

Pick one, interview them. Write about it. Journalism 101......

[hispanarepublicana]

You could do potatoes or something more interesting like pickled herring, chicken gizzards, or pork rinds.

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL I don't feel like getting up out of my chair.

[ConservativeMan55]

Fatback, chicken gizzards, etc.

[wolfpat]

True story:
My best friend was a computer programmer in the pre-Microsoft days. I was reviewing his code for a program he was writing for the local community college that would track student statistics.
He had a subroutine to count the chronically unemployed. The start of that subroutine was a REM statement "...I jus' want to bang on de drum all day."