35—number of CEOs of the 50 largest publicly held companies in North Carolina who received an increase in compensation in 2010 (Report: Salaries of NC CEOs on the rise, (Associated Press, June 19. 2011)

30—percent increase in median increase in compensation of CEOs of the 50 largest publicly held companies in North Carolina who received a increase in compensation in 2010 (Ibid)

3.9 million—amount in dollars of average compensation of CEOs of the 50 largest publicly held companies in North Carolina in 2010 (Ibid)

18.8 million—amount in dollars of compensation in 2010 of retiring CEO Martin Orlowsky of Lorillard, Inc. (Ibid)

702—amount in dollars of the average weekly pay of workers in North Carolina in 2010, an increase of one percent (Ibid)

23—amount in cents per day the average North Carolina resident will receive because the General Assembly refused to extend the 2009 temporary sales tax to reduce cuts to public schools, community colleges and universities (Press release from the Office of Governor Beverly Perdue, June 2, 2011)

32 million—minimum amount in dollars that multinational corporations will receive from corporate tax break passed the next to last day of the General Assembly session (“House okays tax changes, denies loophole,” WRAL.com, June 17, 2011)

30,000—amount in dollars of raise recently given by House Speaker Thom Tillis to Chief of Staff Charles Thomas. (“John Boyle: Salary bumps for Tillis staffers an insult to Asheville teachers,” Asheville Citizen-Times, June 15, 2011)

30,430—amount in dollars of the starting salary of a teacher in North Carolina public schools. (Ibid)

9.7—percent of North Carolina workforce unemployed in May 2011 (“N.C. loses jobs as government cuts back,” Raleigh News & Observer, June 18, 2011)

435,358—number of people in North Carolina unemployed in May 2011 (Ibid)

31,500—number of private sector jobs gained in North Carolina in the last year (Ibid)

32,500—number of public sectors job lost in North Carolina in the last year. (Ibid)

3,200—number of jobs that the Republican budget will eliminate in university system (Press release from the Office of Governor Beverly Perdue, June 2, 2011)

3,800—number of teaching positions that will be abolished by the cuts in the Republican budget (N.C. Department of Public Instruction)

2,245—number of teacher assistant jobs that will be abolished by the cuts in the Republican budget (Ibid)

19,257—number of jobs that will be lost in North Carolina in the next two years because of the lost of federal Medicaid funding (“Budget loses federal Medicaid matching dollars, (The Progressive Pulse, June 4, 2011)