Selections from the November "Harper's Index"

• Amount employees of private-equity firm Bain Capital have donated to the campaiign of its co-founder Mitt Romney: $69,500

• To the Obama campaign: $119,900

• Percentage of all Americans who consider themselves part of the top 1 percent of U.S. earners: 13

 

• Miminum number of U.S. colleges that offer courses in unmanned-drone operation: 5

• Portion of the Veterans Health Administration's budget devoted to veterans with mental-health or addiction problems: 1/3

• Chance that a U.S. worker is of normal weight and without a chronic health problem: 1 in 7

• Number of working-age people for every person  over sixty-five worldwide in 1950: 11.7

• Number today: 8.6

• Projected humber in 2050: 3.9