The presidential inauguration
Number of tickets printed so far:
250,000
Asking price for a ticket from one source:
$20,000
Date of the inauguration:
Jan. 20
Weeks between election and the president being sworn in:
11
Crisis in California
Current budget deficit:
11.2 million
Proposed increase sales tax:
1.5 cents
Length of tax increase:
3 years
Proposed spending cuts:
4.5 billion
Buy more coffee?
Starbucks’ fourth quarter profit down:
97 percent
Last time unemployment was this high:
1994
Fiscal year profit for 2008:
315.5 million
Number of positions recently cut:
1,000
8212;Compiled by Assistant State of Mind Editor Tucker Wincele
