Majority of Americans have rainy day fund

$55 billion: Current brand value of Coca-Cola, according to a Forbes.com report.

Rainy day funds

58: Percentage of American consumers that have a rainy day fund, according to a Gallup poll.

31: Percentage of those who have a rainy day fund who say it would last them three months or less.

23: Who say it would last up to six months.

19: Up to a year.

24: Up to two years or more.

X-rated workplace

23: Percentage of American male workers who have confessed to having viewed (inadvertently or intentionally) X-rated material at work, according to Websense’s Web@Work survey.

12: Percentage of female workers that say the same.

Get me the hard copy

100: When asked the age-old question of, “Will there ever be a paperless office?” the percentage of government executives who said “no,” according to a survey by ZyLAB North America of government organizations.

E-mail black hole

51: Percentage of North American small and medium-sized businesses that fail to respond to customer e-mails, according to a study by BenchmarkPortal.

70: Percentage of small- and medium-sized businesses that fail to respond within 24 hours.

79: Percentage of small- and medium-sized businesses that respond with an inaccurate and/or incomplete answer.

G-rated

$79 million: Amount the average G-rated movie earned between 1989 and 2003, according to The Dove Foundation.

11: Number of times more profitable a G-rated movie is than an R-rated film.

12: Number of times more likely that the film industry will make an R-rated movie rather than a G-rated one.

Internet assistance

75: Percentage of American adults who said the Internet has made it easier to launch a small business, according to a survey by Yahoo! Small Business.

50: Percentage of those who have considered starting a business but haven’t done so, yet say that they would “never be too old” to do so.

Families on the move

1, 2, 3: Rank of Washington, D.C., Boulder, Colo., and Athens, Ga., as 2005’s best cities for relocating families, according to Worldwide Employment Relocation Council.

Idle thought

“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

John MacIntyre is an author and former city magazine editor. His Figuratively Speaking column, launched in 1989, is published in more than 40 newspapers and magazines.