For The Record

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Elizabeth L. Bland, Sora Song

1.6 MILLION Tons of material removed from the site of the World Trade Center collapse, whose excavation will end this month

105,000 Truckloads that have been emptied at the Fresh Kills Landfill

6% Rate of U.S. unemployment last month, the highest since August 1994

$100 BILLION Projected U.S. budget deficit for 2002, down from a $236 billion surplus in 2000

77% Percentage of American Roman Catholics who think priests who have sexually abused a minor should be barred from the priesthood

64% Percentage of Catholics who believe homosexuality has no bearing on the likelihood that priests will abuse minors

25% Average amount of annual income poor families spent to send their children to four-year public colleges in 2000

13% Average amount of income poor families spent on tuition in 1980

Sources: New York Times (2), U.S. Labor Department, N.Y. Times (3), National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (2)