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Go Figure

Stats on clergy jobs, faith and politics, and the abortion debate’s “new normal.”

Unemployment

1.2%: Unemployment rate among U.S. clergy.

9.9%: National unemployment rate (in April 2010).

5,000: Clergy looking for jobs in 2009.

2,000: Clergy looking for jobs in 2005.

Source:

The Wall Street Journal

Faith-Based

6+: Staff on the Democratic National Committee’s faith outreach team in 2008.

1: Staff (part-time) today.

Source:

The Washington Post

Church-State

46%: Americans who say the Supreme Court has been too hostile toward religion.

13%: Americans who say the Supreme Court has been too friendly toward it.

Source: Rasmussen Reports

Abortion

3: Consecutive Gallup polls that found more Americans calling themselves pro-life than pro-choice, leading the polling group to call it the “new normal.”

50%: Americans who say that abortion is morally wrong, down from 56% in 2009.

Source: Gallup

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