The latest
federal figures showed that 280,477 county residents were on Medicaid or some other federally backed health plan — which amounts to 30 percent of the county population.
The
new federal figure is about a quarter of the baseline that state Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said the state would use on Wednesday evening.
Federal figures from earlier this year showed that 190,900 Erie County residents were on Medicare, and that figure would grow as the population ages.
Adjusted for local cost of living,
federal figures show elementary teachers actually rank 49th in earnings and high school teachers 48th.
But with provincial deficits swelling from coast to coast this year, and rising health care costs expected to ravage provincial coffers in the coming decades,
federal figures are starting to paint an increasingly misleading portrait of Canada's government debt situation.
Overall domestic carbon dioxide emissions have grown slightly over the past few decades, according to
federal figures.
Solar is the largest employer in the state power sector, with roughly 5,600 employees, and there are more Washington workers employed in energy efficiency (61,889) than the motor vehicle sector (32,401), according to
federal figures.
A spokesman for the Environment Department stood by
the federal figures, saying it used «Landsat satellite data to identify land clearing across Australia using a consistent methodology developed in collaboration with the CSIRO Data61» and used Geoscience Australia's «big data» Data Cube.