• 14.6%
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   August 13, 2012
• The amount by which state pension systems grew from 2010 to 2011, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. The gains, though, still aren’t nearly enough to make a sizable dent in many states’ pension shortfalls.

• 33
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nevada   |   August 10, 2012
• The number of states that have received a waiver from key requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law. Nevada was the most recent to have their application approved.

• 12
• Source: GOVERNING Data   |   Nation   |   August 9, 2012
• The number of states plus the District of Columbia where minorities now account for the majority of the under-age-10 population. View updated census data for each state.

• 1 in 3
• Source: Wall Street Journal   |   Nation   |   August 8, 2012
• The portion of doctors in the United States who aren't accepting new Medicaid patients -- almost twice the rate of doctors who aren't accepting new Medicare or privately insured patients, according to a new government study.

• Nearly 60%
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   August 7, 2012
• The portion of new academic programs or training opportunities that focused on green careers in 2011, according to the nonprofit Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. One report predicts that 4.2 million green jobs will be added over the next 30 years.

• 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.