Bush by the Numbers

$37 BILLION — The projected deficit for 22 states and the District of Columbia in the next fiscal year (2005).

$8 BILLION — The value of contracts to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan that have been awarded by the Bush administration to major contributors to Bush's Presidential campaign, according to the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan research group. The study, of more than 70 U.S. companies and individual contractors, disclosed more than $500,000 in donations the firms made to Bush's 2000 campaign. Major contracts were awarded without competitive bidding.

8.7 MILLION — Unemployed as of November 2003. That equates to a 5.9-percent unemployment rate.

4.8 MILLION — People working part time — in October 2003 — because they could not find full-time jobs.

2 MILLION — The number, in October, of unemployed persons who had been looking for work for 27 weeks or longer.

1.63 MILLION — People who declared bankruptcy in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2003. That's a 7.8 percent increase from the previous year.

198 — American military personnel who have been killed in Iraq, as of early December, since President Bush declared major combat over in May 2003.

40 — The number of consecutive months, through November 2003, in which manufacturers cut jobs. In that month alone, manufacturing employment dropped by another 17,000.

14 — The percent tuition increased last year in the nation's public universities — the steepest hike in at least a quarter century.