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Physician's Money Digest
76%—Percentage of college undergraduates who have a credit card. (Allstate Foundation, 2005)
50%—Percentage of high school students who say they have been taught economics. (National Council on Economic Education, 2005)
415 billion—Number of unused vacation days forfeited by employees in 2004. (Entrepreneur, 2005)
1 of 3—Number of employees who say they are chronically overworked. (Entrepreneur, 2005)
52%—Percentage of US employees who would rather give up coffee than the ability to log on to non-work Web sites at the office. (Time, 2005)
$2.7 billion—Price to build the new Wynn Las Vegas hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nev. (Wall Street Journal, 2005)
$500—Price of a round of golf at the new Wynn Las Vegas hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nev. (Wall Street Journal, 2005)
$422—Average per capita income in Iraq in 2004. (United Nations Development Programme, 2005)
42%—Percentage of Americans who say their representative in Congress deserves to be reelected. (Wall Street Journal, 2005)
19%—Percentage of American presidents who have died in office. (Mental Floss, 2005)