The Injustice Index is part of a great year-in-review piece by the nonpartisan progressive think tank. DMI takes a look at the best and worst policy decisions of 2007, offers a progressive’s reading list and shines a light on the year’s actions by several right-wing organizations from the Cato Institute to the Heritage Foundation.
 
Below are some facts and figures from the 2007 Injustice Index. (Click here for the full index and here for DMI’s Year in Review.)
 
·            Minimum number of hazardous children’s toys recalled by Mattel in August 2007: 9.5 million.
·            Number of employees on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in 2007: 420.
·            Number of CPSC staff who currently inspect toys, according to The New York Times: 1.
·            Number of CPSC staff eliminated by the Bush administration’s 2008 budget: 19.
·            Number of uninsured children in the United States: 8.6 million.
·            Approximate number of currently uninsured children who would be covered by the bill Congress passed to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): 4 million.
·           Date on which SCHIP was vetoed by President Bush: Oct. 3, 2007.
·            Number of members of the Nobel Committee that awarded the Peace Prize to Al Gore in 2007: 5.
·            Number of U.S. Supreme Court justices who voted against Gore in Bush v. Gore to prevent a recount of ballots cast in Florida during the 2000 presidential election: 5.
·            Average cost per day to Los Angeles County to house a female in the Los Angeles jail: $99.64.
·           Cost of housing Paris Hilton in the Los Angeles jail for one day, including special staff for her needs: $1,109.78.
·           Cost of one night in the Eiffel Suite at the Hilton Paris: $1,392.
·            Number of families who may lose their homes due to foreclosures on their sub-prime mortgage loans: 2.2 million.
·           Chance that a Hispanic or African American borrower received a subprime loan compared with a white borrower with similar credit ratings: 3:1.
·            Number of graduates of Pat Robertson’s Regent University serving in President Bush’s administration, according to Slate: 150.
·            Likelihood that a Regent graduate will be employed in some form of government work: 1:6.
·            Minimum number of days of suspension, including out-of-school, in-school and Saturday detentions, received by three white students at Jena High School for hanging three nooses from the school’s “white tree,” under which only white students traditionally sat: 19.
·            Number of years of prison 17-year-old Mychal Bell, one of the Jena 6, initially faced after being convicted of beating up a white student after the noose incident: 15.
·           Median income of non-Hispanic white households and African American households, respectively: $52,400 and $32,000.