• 56.5%
• BY: The World Bank   |   World   |   February 6, 2013
• The proportion of parliamentary seats held by women in Rwanda in 2012, the highest rate in the world, according to the World Bank. The global average was 20.5 percent. In the United States, women account for 17 percent of federal lawmakers and 23 percent of state legislators.

• $275 million
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Illinois   |   February 5, 2013
• The amount of money Illinois lawmakers approved last year to keep Sears Holdings Corp. in the state after other states courted the retailer. It was one of the largest incentive packages a state has given a company.

• $74.2 billion
• Source: The Miami Herald   |   Florida   |   February 4, 2013
• The budget proposed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, which is the largest in state history.

• 6 months
• Source: Sacramento Bee   |   California   |   February 1, 2013
• The additional time that federal judges are giving California to reduce its inmate population to the court-ordered level. Gov. Jerry Brown recently said the state can't release any more prisoners without putting the public at risk.

• 221
• Source: Governing   |   February 1, 2013
• The number of overdoses prevented in 2010 by Insite, a facility in Vancouver, that provides drug addicts a safe place to use illegal substances under the supervision of medical professionals. No users have ever died at the facility which has been in operation since 2003.

• 66%
• Source: Tennessean   |   Tennessee   |   January 30, 2013
• The portion of items that Tennessee wrongly reimbursed filmmakers on location in the state for. It represents $25 million in misused movie incentives.

• 45%
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Montana   |   January 29, 2013
• The portion of health insurance applications in Montana that are denied, which is the highest rejection rate in the nation, according to an insurance industry group's analysis. View rejection rates for every state.

• 5
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   January 28, 2013
• The number of cities that received "Fs" for their transparency efforts, according to criteria created and measured by U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The study is the first to assess local government transparency.

• 13
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   January 25, 2013
• The number of localities that have sought bankruptcy protection over the past five years. View totals and municipal bankruptcy laws for each state.

• $100
• Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune   |   Minnesota   |   January 24, 2013
• Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has proposed the state enact its first sales tax on clothing -- but only items that cost more than $100.

• 78%
• Source: AP/Politico   |   Nation   |   January 23, 2013
• The portion of students in the United States who graduated from high school on time in 2010 -- the highest rate since 1976.

• 1 in 10
• Source: Washington Post   |   District of Columbia   |   January 22, 2013
• The portion of public schools set to close in the District of Columbia, in response to low enrollment and growing competition from charter schools. Former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee already closed 23 schools in 2008.

• 21
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   January 18, 2013
• The number of states that don't have laws protecting "lifestyle discrimination" in the workplace; some of them have state or local government bans on hiring public employees who use tobacco products.

• 1979
• Source: AP/Washington Post   |   New York City   |   January 17, 2013
• The last time public school bus drivers went on strike in New York City. The most recent strike, which began yesterday, is over a job security clause that workers want put back in their contract.

• 22
• Source: USA Today   |   Nation   |   January 16, 2013
• The number of states plus the District of Columbia where drug busts were traced to medical marijuana purchases in Colorado, according to the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy.