News in Numbers
The number of viewers when Pinellas County, Fla., held its online e-town hall meeting. The online meeting blog had 602 readers and 304 published comments. Previously, town...
The percent of Americans surveyed that said they trusted the government in Washington "almost always" or "most of the time." This result was among the...
The state of California's 20-year cost to lease back properties it will sell for $2 billion, in an effort to reduce the budget deficit. Under a...
The total sales-tax tab, if Arizona's Prop. 100 passes. The temporary 1-cent-per-dollar increase in the state sales tax is expected to raise about $1 billion a year....
The shortfall in some 59 teacher pension funds, according to a new analysis. The funds promise to pay lifetime benefits to millions of the nation's retired...
The increase in California state workers who took their first pension check in January 2010, over the same month in 2009, a strong indication that the state's...
The annual economic impact of one dairy cow. "So if a thousand cows go into a county, that's $15 million," said Mike Meissen, vice president for...
The amount of overtime made by one Harris County, Texas, deputy sheriff last year. Because of attrition and a hiring freeze, the Sheriff's Office spent $32.6...
The number of American jobs lost to China since 2001, according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute. According to the study, the five...
The percent of abortions in 2001 directly billed to insurers -- although that may not give a complete picture, according to one study. Shortly after the...
The year Pennsylvania's eight-year political cycle began. Like clockwork, the governorship has switched between Democrats and Republicans every eight years since then, and has spanned 14...
The amount that Kansas tax revenues exceeded the state's projection in March. That helped shrink the state's budget deficit for the next fiscal year from $467...
The growth of Hispanic voters in Texas between the 2000 and 2008 elections. During that time, however, Hispanics made up only about 20 percent of registered voters in...
The last year Newark, N.J., had a murder-free calendar month -- until last month, March 2010, which also had no homicides to report. The first-quarter...
The number of full-time Dayton, Ohio, city employees who moved out of the city since an Ohio Supreme Court ruling last June banned municipalities from...
The average increase in tax revenues in the next fiscal year -- as predicted by the 15 most populous states. The revenue increases are being driven...
Salary of California lawmakers, according to a survey conducted by the California Citizens Compensation Commission. By comparison, Michigan legislators earn $79,650, those in New York earn $79,500...
The prize for Portland, Ore.'s open source design contest. Innovators use data sets to create applications that address civic issues and benefit the greater...
The amount of federal highway revenue Kentucky could lose each year if the commonwealth passes a bill deregulating non-commercial billboards. The bill is aimed at...
The amount of New Jersey's pension gap for public-sector employees. In addition to stock market losses, workers in the system have increased 20 percent in the...
The annual cost of printed meeting agendas for each Sacramento, Calif., City Council member. Now, however, members receive agendas electronically on Amazon Kindle e-book readers...
The amount of your salary on which you owe taxes to New York state, if you live in Boston but spend one out of 250 workdays...
The number of Web site domains that Kentucky officials want to seize in a crackdown on illegal gambling. The case has gone back and forth,...
The number of states where prison populations fell last year. States with declines included New York, Mississippi, and Texas. But over the same period of...
The number of people killed this year in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas. Two Americans were recently killed in...
The amount of annual pay increases and promotions given to staff by California's new Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez the day he was sworn...
The number of homicides in St. Petersburg, Fla., in 2009 -- the lowest in 40 years. Homicides are down from a high of 44 in 1989 and 30 just five...
Percentage of the time that E-Verify -- the system Congress and the Obama administration wants employers to use to help curb illegal immigration -- fails...
Percent tuition hike approved by the University of California Board of Regents. Florida students may face 15 percent annual tuition increases, and the University of Washington...
The number of votes required to overcome a filibuster in the New Jersey General Assembly -- the highest such threshold in the nation. But to...
