News in Numbers
The year by which the U.S. Interior Department will phase out single-use plastic products on 480 million...
The number of states in which the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline is more than...
The amount that Delaware-based blockchain software development company Regen Network Development bought in carbon credits that were generated by...
The length in miles of the New Orleans storm shield just completed by the Army Corps of Engineers, 17 years after...
The number of mass shootings in the U.S. so far in 2022, including the latest in Tulsa, Okla., where a gunman...
The peak demand in megawatts on the Texas electric grid on Tuesday, May 31, the highest...
The estimated number of robots that will be used to help New York seniors through...
The proportion of Republicans who support moderate or strong regulations of gun ownership, according to...
The proportion of Republicans who do not favor their own party’s position on...
The number of bicyclists that were killed in 2020, a 16 percent increase from the year prior and a 44 percent...
The increase in the U.S. birth rate in 2021, compared to 2020, making it the first increase...
The pounds of infant formula that arrived in Indianapolis via military plane on Sunday, May 22, to help offset the shortage...
U.S. President Joe Biden’s approval rating in early May, the lowest of his presidency so far. Only about two...
The number of states with significant miscounts in the 2020 census; eight states had...
The number of lives that could be saved, annually, by removing particulates, a common air pollution caused by...
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.
