Bush by the Numbers

7.4 trillion — Record national-debt ceiling after Bush signed legislation to raise the limit earlier this year.

$1.2 trillion — Federal revenue that will be lost if Bush's tax cuts, which are now scheduled to expire over the next decade, are made permanent.

$401 billion — The estimated federal deficit for the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That compares to the previous record of $290.4 billion set in 1992, when Bush the Elder was President. The deficit is estimated to reach $1.4 trillion over the next decade, and that figure doesn't count the cost of the war in Iraq, its reconstruction or proposed new tax cuts or spending programs.

2.57 million — Workers who have exhausted all their unemployment insurance benefits from September 2002 through July 2003.

34.8 million — People living in poverty last year. According to the Census Bureau, 300,000 more families were living in poverty in 2002 than in 2001.

360,435 — Workers who lost their jobs in July and August due to mass layoffs.

25 — The number of years, until now, that the Environmental Protection Agency has enforced a policy to restrict the sale of land contaminated with PCBs, which are known to cause neurological and other disorders in children. This summer, the Bush-controlled EPA relaxed those restrictions, making it easier to sell such land unless it is severely contaminated.

1 — Number of jobs that Bush has proposed to create (assistant secretary of commerce for manufacturing) vs. 2.5 million real manufacturing jobs lost since he took office.

34 percent — Drop in consumer confidence since Bush became President, according to The Conference Board, a research organization.