• 90
• Source: Washington Post   |   District of Columbia   |   February 8, 2012
• The number of District of Columbia government employees that were suspended for receiving unemployment benefits while working for the city. Each may be fired and/or prosecuted for fraud.

• 30,000
• Source: Orlando Sentinel   |   Florida   |   February 7, 2012
• The number of offenders -- about 5,600 of whom are violent -- who are currently off Florida's radar. Most fled work camps or release programs or stopped calling probation officers.

• 7
• Source: New Jersey Star-Ledger   |   Newark, N.J.   |   February 6, 2012
• The number of failing schools that Newark, N.J., Superintendent Cami Anderson plans to close next school year -- a potentially controversial move after talk of school consolidation spurred outrage last year. She also wants to expand access to the city’s exclusive magnet schools.

• $264.5 million
• Source: Politico   |   Alabama   |   February 3, 2012
• The estimated amount of state income and sales taxes that Alabama is losing because of its controversial immigration law that caused illegal immigrants to flee the state, according to a cost-benefit analysis.
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• 9
• Source: AP/CBS News   |   Nation   |   February 2, 2012
• The number of states without an income tax. Republican lawmakers in seven other states are trying to reduce or eliminate the tax.

• 43
• Source: Denver Post   |   Colorado   |   February 1, 2012
• The number of children who died from abuse or neglect after entering Colorado's child welfare program. Each case was riddled with a possible policy violation on the part of county social workers.

• $18 billion
• Source: Governing.com   |   Nation   |   January 31, 2012
• The estimated savings that states could achieve over five years from proposed regulations on Medicaid prescription drugs, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

• 500
• Source: Hartford Courant   |   East Haven, Conn.   |   January 30, 2012
• The number of tacos that immigration reform advocates sent East Haven, Conn., Mayor Joseph Maturo after he remarked that he "might have tacos" to support the Latino community. The mayor's comment sparked calls for his resignation from media and the city's Democrats.

• $50,000
• Source: Chicago Tribune   |   Illinois   |   January 27, 2012
• The maximum fine that, if an Illinois bill passes, online-dating services like Match.com would face if they failed to post prominently and repeatedly on their websites whether they do background checks on users.

• 39
• Source: The Associated Press   |   Nation   |   January 26, 2012
• The number of states that automatically give teachers tenure. In recent years, eight states have started factoring student performance into the decision to award a teacher tenure.

• 141 trillion
• Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette   |   Mid-Atlantic   |   January 25, 2012
• The amount of natural gas, in cubic feet, that the U.S. Energy Department estimates is in the Marcellus Shale -- down from 410 trillion cubic feet last year. Gas production in the region doubled in 2011.

• 23
• Source: Reuters   |   Harrisburg, Pa.   |   January 24, 2012
• The age of John Campbell, the new treasurer for Pennsylvania's virtually bankrupt capital city. Campbell is currently studying for dual bachelor's degrees in business administration and economics.

• 7 in 10
• Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer   |   Ohio   |   January 23, 2012
• The portion of Ohioans who oppose fracking in their state until the controversial drilling practice is studied further, according to the first statewide poll on the issue.

• 12.5%
• Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch   |   Missouri   |   January 20, 2012
• Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's proposed cut in state funding to public colleges and universities to which higher education leaders said would almost certainly force tuition hikes.

• 2
• Source: Government Technology   |   Nation   |   January 19, 2012
• The number of states, most recently Utah, using Google’s cloud-based email for all state government employees. Wyoming was the first to use Google Apps for Government.