71.  The city's tax rate (which includes a 3 percent city income tax) is 6.5 times the state average.

72.  The insurance industry says the percentage of policy holders taking earthquake insurance has dropped to 17 percent from the state historic average of 20 to 25 percent.

73.  The New York state average at the time was 2.99 percent.

74.  The median household income, $14,644, is less than half the state average.

75.  The percentage of homes without phone service, 2.2 percent, is also higher than the state average.

76.  The per capita income is $11,000 _ $8,700 below the state average _ according to Claritas, an independent marketing data company in Arlington, Va.

77.  The road is increasingly congested and strikingly dangerous, with a fatality rate 10 times higher than the state average.

78.  The rate in East Carroll Parish, which includes Lake Providence, is nearly twice the state average.

79.  The previous school year, it had reported a score of 45 percent, against a state average of 83.1 percent.

80.  The rate is more than 22 percent higher than the state average of 100 cases per 100,000 women.