News in Numbers
The number of people who died in traffic crashes last year, a 10.5 percent increase from 2020. Americans drove about 325 billion miles in 2021, about 11.2 percent more...
The number of acres the Hermits Peak Calf Canyon fire has burned in New Mexico, an area nearly as large as Los Angeles, making it the largest...
The increase in housing prices since 2020 in the Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas, metro area, spiking from $184,900 to $233,000. The median yearly household income for Brownsville...
The amount that Gov. Gavin Newsom wants California to set aside to help cover the cost of abortions for women who don’t qualify for Medicaid and don’t have private health insurance. The money is part of an extra $75 million...
The number of states that have considered bills that would impose penalties for social media censorship or content limits based on ideological viewpoints...
The magnitude of a preliminary earthquake that hit Columbia, S.C., shortly after 1:30 a.m. on May 9. Officials have said that Monday morning’s quake may have felt more significant due to...
The cost for at least 100 Megabits per second of Internet speed under the Affordable Connectivity Program. The program, which will reduce the cost of high-speed Internet plans for low-income Americans...
The proportion of LGBTQ youth who seriously considered attempting suicide last year, according to a new survey from The Trevor Project. The report also found that nearly 1 in 5 transgender...
The number of high-hazard dams within the National Inventory of Dams where the conditions are unknown, including the status of the Hoover Dam and the Oroville Dam, two of the country's largest. Experts have become concerned about the lack of transparency surrounding the dams, because if they were to fail, they could cause life-threatening flooding.
The rate per hour that Hawaii could raise its minimum wage to by 2028, which, if signed by the governor, would become the highest in the nation. Currently, the state’s minimum wage is $10.10 an hour; the legislation would raise the rate in increments over the next several years, starting by increasing it to $12 an hour on Oct. 1. A study found that 42 percent of Hawaii households struggle to make ends meet.
The number of states that have no minimum age for prosecuting children. Florida has the lowest established minimum age for juvenile prosecution at 7 years old; the age was raised a year after a 6-year-old was arrested at her school for kicking and punching staff members while throwing a tantrum in 2019. New Hampshire has the oldest minimum age set at 13 years old.
The amount that Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has spent on his first television ad for his re-election campaign.
The number of states that are suing the U.S. Postal Service to stop the purchase of thousands of gas-powered vehicles in an attempt to have the Service electrify its mail delivery fleet; 14 of the states have Democratic governors. Two more separate, but similar, lawsuits were filed, one by the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, CleanAirNow KC and Sierra Club and the other by the Natural Resources Defense Council and United Auto Workers in New York. The Postal Service plans to purchase up to 165,000 delivery vehicles over the next decade.
The rate at which the U.S. economy shrank last quarter, the first decline since the pandemic recession hit two years ago. However, consumers and businesses continue to spend.
The median existing home price for all housing types in March, an increase of 15 percent from the year prior. The increase marks 121 consecutive months of year-over-year increases, the longest streak on record.
The proportion of students at both four-year and two-year universities who had experienced homelessness in the last year, according to an annual survey by The Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University. Across the U.S., students are struggling to find university housing, with 43 percent of students at four-year universities having experienced housing insecurity in 2020, an increase of 8 percent from the year prior.
The number of square miles that a wildfire in southwestern Nebraska had burned as of Sunday evening. The Road 702 Fire is spread over 78 square miles of Red Willow, Furnas and Frontier counties, and has killed one person, injured at least 15 firefighters and destroyed at least six homes.
The number of tons of carbon emissions that Gov. Tom Wolf predicts Pennsylvania will emit by 2030, a reduction of 97 million tons. The state will join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a multistate consortium that sets a price and declining limits on power plant emissions. The cap-and-trade program requires owners of fossil-fuel power plants with a capacity of 25 or more megawatts must buy a credit for every ton of CO2 they emit.
The proportion of Americans, or more than 137 million people, who live in areas with poor air quality, according to a new report. Only one of the top 25 worst cities with particulate matter pollution was east of the Rocky Mountains and California had 11 of the top 25 polluted cities. Fresno, Calif., had the worst short-term particulate matter pollution and Los Angeles had the worst ozone levels. People of color were almost four times more likely to live in a county with poor air quality compared to white people.
The proportion of Americans who favor requiring people to wear masks on planes, trains and public transportation, while just 24 percent are opposed.
The estimated amount that Texas lost per day as a result of the week-long increased border security policy, which caused longer wait times and delayed shipments of products.
The number of K-12 mathematics textbooks that the Florida education department has rejected, making up 41 percent of the 132 total books submitted for review; 28 of the books were rejected because they “incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including [critical race theory].” Among the rejected titles were 70 percent of math materials for kindergarten through fifth grades, 20 percent of the materials for grades six through eight and 35 percent of materials for grades nine through 12.
The number of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, that were released on Justice Day, April 15, by Terrence Floyd, George Floyd’s brother and the founder of the nonprofit We Are Floyd Org. The proceeds of the NFTs will go to three charities: the Breonna Taylor Foundation, the John and Lilian Miles Lewis Foundation and the We Are Floyd Org.
The number of homes that the McBride Fire in Ruidoso, N.M., has burned, as of Thursday, since it started two days prior; it has burned 5,736 acres of land. More than 5,000 residents of Ruidoso have been forced to evacuate.
The rate of equity for Black people in America, as compared to white people, according to The National Urban League’s annual report on the State of Black America. The report also found that the median household income for Black people is 37 percent less than that of white households, Black people live an average of four years less than white people and Black Americans are three times more likely to be jailed if arrested.
The number of cents that the average U.S. price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline dropped over the last two weeks, down to $4.27 per gallon, which is still up $1.32 from what it was a year ago.
The number of titles that have been removed from book shelves in 86 school districts across the nation over the last nine months, most of which addressed racist or LGBTQ issues. More than two-thirds of the banned titles were fiction, but nonfiction titles, including child-appropriate biographies of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Duke Ellington and Nelson Mandela, and poetry collections have also been removed.
The annual revenue loss to the federal budget due to a climate change-related reduction in the country’s Gross Domestic Product, which would translate to a loss of about $2 trillion every year.
The number of times that the moratorium on federal student loan payments, interest and collections, has been extended, including the Biden administration’s most recent announcement that payments will be deferred until Aug. 31, 2022. Only about 500,000 federal student loan borrowers, out of more than 43 million, have been repaying their loans during the pause.
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