• 22%
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   December 3, 2012
• The portion of public employers who report that employees are speeding up their retirement plans, according to the Center for State and Local Government Excellence. Read our series on aging in America at governing.com/generations.
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• Zero
• Source: CNN   |   New York City   |   November 30, 2012
• The number of reported slayings, stabbings, shootings or knifings in New York City this past Monday -- marking the "first time in memory" that the city has had a day without any of those crimes, according to the deputy police commissioner.

• $10,000
• Source: Texas Tribune/GOVERNING   |   Florida   |   November 29, 2012
• The cost of a bachelor's degree in Florida, if universities meet Gov. Rick Scott's challenge to find a way to offer such a low-cost education. Texas Gov. Rick Perry issued a similar challenge in 2011, and 10 colleges have since launched or plan to launch such a degree.

• 5.2%
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   November 28, 2012
• The average rate at which personal income grew last year, according to recent federal data. In 2010, personal income grew only 3.9 percent.
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• 19
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   November 27, 2012
• The number of states with laws that discourage or prevent localities from creating new community broadband networks.

• $29.4 billion
• Source: Newark Star-Ledger   |   New Jersey   |   November 26, 2012
• The estimated damage that Hurricane Sandy caused in New Jersey, according to Gov. Chris Christie who is asking the federal government for help.

• 9
• Source: McClatchy/GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   November 21, 2012
• The number of states, including Wisconsin, that allow voters to register at their polling place on the day of the election; however, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker recently said he's considering ending same-day voter registration.

• 80%
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   November 20, 2012
• The portion of 20 of the most populous cities where tax-exempt properties account for a higher share of the total assessed value than they did five years ago, according to a Governing analysis.

• $243 million
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   November 19, 2012
• The scheduled cut to Community Development Block Grants, which are one of the biggest direct sources of federal aid to cities, if sequestration takes effect in January.

• 68%
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   November 16, 2012
• The portion of ballot measures to extend funding for highways, bridges and transit that were approved on Election Day last week.

• 70%
• Source: New York Times   |   Nation   |   November 15, 2012
• The portion of students in New Orleans who are enrolled in charter schools, which is the highest rate in the nation, according to a new report on charter school enrollment around the country.

• 120 billion tons
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Montana   |   November 14, 2012
• The amount of coal below Montana's surface, which accounts for nearly one-quarter of the known coal reserves in the United States.

• 25
• Source: Huffington Post   |   Nation   |   November 13, 2012
• The number of states where residents filed petitions on WhiteHouse.gov to secede from the United States after last week's elections.

• 11/16/12
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   November 12, 2012
• The deadline, which is this Friday, for states to decide whether they will run their own health insurance exchange, let the federal government run one for them or have a state-federal partnership exchange. The federal government did, however, extend the deadline for the full blueprint to Dec. 14.

• 51st
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Puerto Rico   |   November 8, 2012
• Puerto Rico voted to become the 51st state in the union; however, the referendum is nonbinding, and statehood would require Congress' approval.