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Little Known Facts about ProCon.org

Benjamin Franklin extolled the benefits of pros and cons in 1772, in a letter to his friend Joseph Priestley, a British philosopher and scientist.

170 schools in 38 states and 4 countries have used ProCon.org content in their educational materials (as of Apr. 18, 2008).

Readers have sent us 354 suggested pro-con topics (as of Apr. 15, 2008), several of which (including electronic voting, felon voting, abortion, death penalty, and more) have become new ProCon.org questions and websites.

In 2006, 91.6% of ProCon.org revenue went toward our program services. In 2005, 92.2% of ProCon.org revenue went toward our program services.

ProCon.org has been mentioned in dozens of newspapers, radio stations, and internet websites, such as New York Times, BBCNews, 60 Minutes, National Public Radio, XM Radio, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Wired, Medical News Today, and the Houston Chronicle .

ProCon.org was selected as the Yahoo! Pick on January 23, 2006. The Yahoo! editors wrote: "You're guaranteed to disagree with 50% of what you read here, but you'll come away better informed and -- if the site's founders are proved out -- a better citizen, to boot."

Our 2006 ProCon.org logo contest yielded 166 logos from 42 contestants in 8 countries. The winning logo, below, will appear on the revamped ProCon.org websites in Summer 2008.

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