Blog posts with the tag "By the Numbers"
September 24, 2012: By the Numbers
12%
The percentage of children in Department of Defense K-12 schools worldwide who received special education services in the school year 2011-2012, according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report -- Military Dependents: Better Oversight Needed to Improve Services for Children with Special Needs.
September 10, 2012: By the Numbers
3,000
The number of people worldside who commit suicide every day, according to the World Health Organization, which also noted: "For every person who completes a suicide, 20 or more may attempt to end their lives."
According to a statistic vetted by PolitiFact, 18 of those 3000 are U.S. military veterans.
Today -- September 10 -- is the 10th anniversary of World Suicide Prevention Day.
August 27, 2012: By the Numbers
10%
The percentage of "U.S. military deployers" to Iraq and Afghanistan that is female, according to an article in the July 2012 issue of the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a publication of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center. The article -- Health of women after wartime deployments: correlates of risk for selected medical conditions among females after initial and repeat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, active component, U.S. Armed Forces -- notes that, in total, women comprise about one-seventh (14%) of the U.S. military's "active component."
August 20, 2012: By the Numbers
$34 billion
The amount spent annually by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on compensation to more than three million veterans with service-connected disabilities (SCDs), according to a new report from the RAND Corporation -- Is Military Disability Compensation Adequate to Offset Civilian Earnings Losses from Service-Connected Disabilities?