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| A Numerological Snapshot: February 2008 |
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| Written by Josh Nathan-Kazis | |||||
| Monday, 04 February 2008 | |||||
New Voices by the Numbers
Percentage of Americans who responded the same way in 2007: 13 Number of days for which Jewish issues blog JVoices stopped posting during November and December "in Solidarity with the Writers Guild of America strike": 46 Percentage of American Jews who think that "most" or "many" American Muslims are anti-Semitic: 57 Percentage of American Jews who think that "very few" American Muslims are anti-Semitic: 6 Percentage of NYU students who said that they would sell their vote for a year's tuition: 66 Percentage of NYU's undergraduate class of 2006 who bore student loan debt upon graduation: 61 Average student loan debt of that class: $34,417 Average student loan debt of seniors graduating from four-year colleges in New York state in 2006: $21,092
1-2: American Attitudes Towards Jews in America (Anti-Defamation League, 2007) 4-5: 2007 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion (American Jewish Committee, 2007) 6: "Most say their vote has a price ," (Washington Square News, 11/14/07) 7-9: Project on Student Debt
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Percentage of Americans who answered in the affirmative when asked in 1964 if they thought that Jews "have a lot of irritating faults": 40