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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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