Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for February 03, 2023
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February 03, 2023: On February 3, 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the first paper money in North America, initially £40,000, which they used to pay their troops.[1]
Today, more than $2 trillion of U.S. currency is in circulation, made up of more than 53 billion individual notes.[2]
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
- February 2, 2023-51% of voters think that school choice programs provide better educational opportunities for students
- February 1, 2023-67% of voters say that a high school student who was born a boy but identifies as a girl should use the men’s restroom
- January 31, 2023-45% of voters say that Congress should raise the debt ceiling only with spending cuts
- January 30, 2023-76% of voters favor dramatically increasing the domestic mining of precious minerals to make the U.S. more self-reliant
- January 27, 2023-69% of voters believe that a man becomes a father as soon as he gets a woman pregnant
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