News in Numbers
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 ...
The number of federal jobs D.C. could lose as a result of cuts to the federal workforce...
The amount of money the House approved in its budget reconciliation bill to reimburse states like Texas for border spending ...
The size of the budget approved by the Los Angeles City Council last week...
The number of non-existent books on a “summer reading list” published by the Chicago Sun-Times ...
The age of the Yamaki Pine, a bonsai tree known as the Peace Tree. The tree survived the 1945 atomic ...
Population growth in Princeton, Texas, between 2023 and 2024, making it the fastest-growing city or town in the country, according to new Census Bureau estimates...
On Tuesday, John Ewing Jr. was elected as the first African American mayor of Omaha, Neb...
The amount of additional funding for prisons approved by Georgia lawmakers this year. The system has been plagued by security lapses and violence...
The amount of cash that Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand comes into the race for governor carrying in his campaign accounts ...
With more than 750 confirmed cases of measles, the outbreak in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico is now the nation’s largest...
The proposed raise for Denver’s chief financial officer (CFO). A City Council committee has approved substantial raises for department heads...
The total cost for police overtime in Sacramento, Calif., in 2023. That represented nearly a tenfold increase from 2011...
The share of capital sentences in Louisiana that were reversed between 1976 and 2015...
