News in Numbers
Decrease in homicides across Los Angeles in the first half of this year...
Number of confirmed U.S. measles cases in 39 states as of July 8, a 33-year-high, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There have been three confirmed deaths, and 13 percent of the cases have led to hospitalizations. Twenty-nine percent of the cases were in children younger than 5 and 36 percent in those between the ages of 5 and 19. In 92 percent of the cases, the individuals were unvaccinated or their vaccination status was unknown.
Barrels of “estimated undiscovered technically recoverable” oil lying below federal lands...
Percentage of New York City voters who support the creation of municipally owned grocery stores ...
Number of undocumented patients who were treated at Texas hospitals from December through February at a cost of $329 million ...
The number of states rejecting summer lunch funding from the federal government...
The share of Minnesota voters who would prefer Democratic Gov. Tim Walz not run again...
The number of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) employees who will be working in Alexandria, Va...
The increase, since 2021, in the amount of signal jammers seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection...
The number of Americans who would be pushed into medical debt by congressional proposals to cut Medicaid and other health programs...
The number of states that had tax revenue below their 15-year trends in 2024. That number had increased from 27 the year before and represents a dramatic spike from 2022, when only one state was below trend.
The number of full-time city positions added to the payroll by Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott in his final budget proposal ...
The share of Americans getting news from social media and video networks such as YouTube...
The “optimism gap” between Republicans and Democrats about future stock market performance. The share of Republicans who expect stocks to climb over the next six months tops Democrats by 47 percentage points, easily a record in Gallup polling going back a quarter of a century. “If I know how people voted, I could tell you how they feel about the stock market,” said wealth manager David Sadkin.
The amount of responsibility two drug companies shared for Baltimore’s opioid problems, according to a jury verdict ...
The net cost to state and local governments in 2023 from the surge in immigration that began in 2021 ...
The new hourly wage for engineers working for NJ Transit, along with a signing bonus...
The share of Michigan State Police troopers expressing a lack of confidence in the top police leadership...
The share of students receiving vouchers from North Carolina who previously attended public school.
The increase in the number of homeless families in Atlanta over the past year...
The number of federal judges threatened during the first five months of the year...
The number of immigrants who could face deportation after a divided Supreme Court ruled on Friday ...
The number of people forced to evacuate as a result of wildfires in Manitoba, Canada ...
