Numbers

By Melissa August, Elizabeth L. Bland, Sean Gregory, Janice M. Horowitz, Lisa McLaughlin and Rebecca Winters

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