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"Welcome to Milwaukee. As of 2011, Wisconsin had the best-funded pension system in the United States at a pension funding rate of 99.8%. Second best is South Dakota."

"Welcome to Chicago. As of 2011, Illinois had the most under-funded pension system in the country with a rate of just 43%. Missouri's pension funding rate was a lot higher at 82%."

"In 2011, Americans were spending around $178 a year on cereal, up from $143 five years earlier."

"Kansas produces enough wheat each year to bake 36 billion loaves of bread. That's 5 loaves for every person in the world."

"Mishandled bags at US airports totaled 1.9 million in 2011, down from 4.4 million in 2007."

"US daily newspaper circulation totaled 44 million in 2011, down from 55 million in 2003."