Among the most famous recipients of the GED are U.S. Senators Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Paull Shin, Governors Jim Florio and Ruth Ann Minner, Surgeon General Richard Carmona, and highly revered ABC broadcast journalist Peter Jennings.
With an average price of $40 for a case of standard copy paper, this is an $80 annual cost per employee. The cost of the paper is only about 1011% of the lifecycle cost of that paper, according to a government study conducted by California's Alameda County.
For comparison, the cost of plain paper comes to about $5 per megabyte just for the paper, (taking one megabyte to be equivalent to about 500 pages typed one side single-spaced, with the retail cost of paper at one cent per letter-size sheet, which is a reasonably average price in the 1990s).