News in Numbers
Beginning today in Washington, D.C., riders on DC Circulator buses will return to paying the regular $1 fare. Since late February, those rides had been free under a program promoted by D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser as a way to help the city’s poor and low-income residents. Critics, including some council members, claimed the “free Circulator disproportionately benefited tourists and people who live and work in some of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods.” Council denied Bowser the financial support to make the free rides permanent.
The food delivery company DoorDash said that 4.9 million customers, delivery workers and merchants had their information stolen by hackers. The breach happened on May 4, but the gig economy company says that customers who joined after April 5, 2018, are not affected by the breach. It’s not clear why it took almost five months for DoorDash to detect the breach.
The battery life remaining on a Tesla electric police car during a high-speed chase. A Fremont, Calif., officer in the Tesla Model S, became involved in a police pursuit Friday but radioed dispatch to say that the electric vehicle warned that it had only 6 miles of battery range left and that he may not be able to continue in the chase.
The number of traffic safety bills introduced in state legislatures in 2018, including pedestrian and bicyclist safety (150), automated enforcement (123), alcohol-impaired driving (240), occupant protection (32), drugged driving (2 enacted), and school bus safety (4 enacted).
Percentage of national survey respondents who trust law enforcement and technology companies, respectively, to use facial recognition technologies responsibly.
A group of battery researchers at Dalhousie University, which has an exclusive agreement with Tesla, published findings in The Journal of the Electrochemical Society describing a lithium-ion battery that “should be able to power an electric vehicle for over 1 million miles” while losing less than 10 percent of its energy capacity during its lifetime. Its paper seems to affirm a promise made by Elon Musk last April.
The percentage increase since 2012 of the number of registered quarries, rock mining operations and aggregate plants operating in Texas, far outpacing state regulatory oversight.
The value of a 2017 contract for 10 new streetcars canceled by the Seattle Department of Transportation on Monday. The new streetcars were longer and heavier than those the city bought earlier, and would have required up to $17 million in additional work to retrofit maintenance barns, stops and bridges.
The number of online applications received by Amazon in the 24 hours after its six-city career day on Tuesday.
Year Governing was founded by Peter A. Harkness. It will discontinue publication this fall.
The amount of money California is on track to post in licensed cannabis sales this year. This would solidify the state's status as the largest legal marijuana market in the world.
New York City police officers who committed suicide this year. In response, the department is seeking to improve its mental health services.
The number of doctors in California 247 who have had their medical school debt paid off under a new state program aimed at addressing a medical provider shortage. Recipients must agree to see Medicaid patients for 30 percent of their caseloads for five years.
The fine for killing a wild turkey in Missouri, under a new state anti-poaching measure that also covers black bears, elk and deer.
ICE protesters arrested on Saturday after closing a major highway in New York City. They were rallying for an end to the federal immigration enforcement agency.
Paid family and medical leave guaranteed under a new Oregon law that also makes it the first state in the nation to offer low-income workers 100 percent wage replacement benefits.
The number of undocumented immigrants arrested by ICE at seven sites across Mississippi last week. The raids are believed to be the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in the country's history.
Ratio of bills enacted to those introduced in state legislatures this year to help with consumer pharmaceutical costs.
Net number of jobs Kansas has lured away from Missouri over the last 10 years of economic development competition between the two states.
Amount the Trump campaign owes the Texas city of El Paso for police and public safety services associated with a rally there in February. Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke held a rally the same day and paid the city in May.
U.S. voters who have been removed from registration lists in the last five years. Counties with histories of discrimination were once required to seek federal approval to purge voters. Without that rule, those counties purge voters at a higher rate than other counties.
Size of the refund checks being sent to South Carolina residents, who paid for a $2 billion nuclear project that was never completed. It's a fraction of what they were charged for the project on their utility bills.
Current statute of limitations for sex crimes in Illinois. As of 2020, victims will no longer face a time limit for charging people with sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault or aggravated sexual abuse.
Kids who would lose free school meals under the Trump administration's new rules about who is eligible for food stamps. This finding was left out of the administration's formal proposal.
The last year that the federal government executed a person for committing a crime. Earlier this month, the Trump administration ordered the death penalty for five people convicted of killing children and elderly.
Excused absences that high school students in Oregon are allowed in a three-month period. Under a new law, mental or behavioral health problems now fall in this category. Utah has a similar law.
