Numbers

800,000 Estimated number of jobless workers whose unemployment benefits will be extended for 13 weeks under legislation enacted by the new Republican-controlled Congress

1 million Number of unemployed workers Democrats say the bill left behind

$452,000 Annual salary that members of the government's new auditing board, charged with overseeing the accounting profession, voted to pay themselves

$400,000 President Bush's annual salary

64,684 U.S. death toll from the flu in 1998-99

16,263 U.S. death toll from flu in 1976-77

65% Percentage of adults 65 and older who today get flu shots

$5 billion Amount that Americans borrowed for college tuition for the 2001-02 school year

$1 billion Amount they borrowed for the 1995-96 school year

Sources: New York Times (2); JAMA; Wall Street Journal; McDonald's