• 9,000
• Source: Governing   |   Nation   |   August 6, 2012
• The number of state and local government jobs that were cut in the month of July, according to data released by the Labor Department.

• 1,584
• Source: AP/CBS News   |   Nation   |   August 3, 2012
• The number of U.S. counties spread across 32 states that have been declared disaster areas in recent months. Over 90 percent have been placed on the list due to severe drought conditions.

• 607
• Source: The Denver Post   |   Denver, Colo.   |   August 2, 2012
• The number of photo-speed-van and red-light-camera tickets issued to city of Denver employees driving city cars that have gone unpaid for the last 3½ years according to the city's manager of safety records.

• 54%
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   August 1, 2012
• The portion of surveyed Americans who are tired of Congress debating the health-care reform law and want lawmakers to move onto other issues, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

• 1
• Source: Des Moines Register   |   Iowa   |   July 31, 2012
• The number of Iowa's 150 state lawmakers who have taken up Gov. Terry Branstad's call for all state workers to voluntarily pay 20 percent of their health insurance.

• $111.6 million
• Source: Denver Post   |   Colorado   |   July 30, 2012
• The record-breaking amount of money that Colorado State University raised this past fiscal year, which is a 31 percent increase from a year ago.

• $7 billion
• Source: GOVERNING   |   District of Columbia   |   July 27, 2012
• The cost of Amtrak's proposed plan to modernize Washington, D.C.,'s iconic Union Station, which would make it one of the country's most expensive transportation infrastructure projects.

• 5
• Source: Raleigh News & Observer   |   Nation   |   July 26, 2012
• The number of states that require high school students to take a CPR training course in order to graduate. North Carolina is already one of these states, but Gov. Bev Perdue is expected to sign a bill that enforces the requirement.

• 43%
• Source: Denver Post   |   Colorado   |   July 25, 2012
• The jump, from a week earlier, in background checks for people seeking to buy guns in Colorado after Friday's shooting at a movie theater that killed 12 and injured 58 others.

• 200
• Source: New York Times   |   The South   |   July 24, 2012
• The number of municipalities in the South that have enacted smoking bans in bars, restaurants or workplaces in recent years. Last week, Atlanta became the largest city in the South to ban smoking in public parks.

• 2
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   July 23, 2012
• The number of states, which are Maine and Vermont, that give prison inmates the right to vote.

• 71%
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   July 20, 2012
• The portion of U.S. households connected to the Internet in 2010 -- up from 61.7 percent in 2007. View data for each state.

• 17
• Source: Wall Street Journal   |   Lowell, Mass.   |   July 19, 2012
• The age that teenagers in Lowell, Mass., would be able to vote in municipal elections if a bill passes the state Legislature. If signed into law, Lowell would be the nation's first city to allow under-18 residents to vote in local elections.

• 27%
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   July 18, 2012
• The portion of workers in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas that can get to their jobs in 90 minutes or less using public transportation. View detailed data for your region.

• $500 million
• Source: Stateline   |   Nation   |   July 17, 2012
• The amount of money that 43 states will share from the nation's largest health-care fraud settlement. Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will pay the federal and state governments to resolve charges of illegally marketing certain prescription drugs and overcharging publicly funded programs.