News in Numbers
911 calls that failed to go through in 2017 due to an AT&T outage. Customers couldn't dial 911 again on Tuesday morning.
Criminal records that Pennsylvania is automatically sealing for charges that didn't result in convictions and low-level misdemeanors committed by people who haven't incurred any other charges within a decade. The state's Clean Slate law is unprecedented in America.
Anticipated reduction in non-citizens' response rate to the 2020 Census if it includes a citizenship question. That translates to an overall drop of 2.2 percentage points for all households.
People who could lose their health care -- whether it's through Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program or the marketplace -- if the Trump administration goes through with its proposal to change how the federal poverty line is calculated.
LGBTQ people's representation in U.S. politics. Out of the nearly 520,000 elected offices, LGBTQ people hold 698 of them.
National Guard troops that the Texas governor said on Friday that he will deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border, which will double the number of Texas troops there.
Ransom that hackers demanded from Riviera Beach, Fla., which is equivalent to $600,000. The city paid it. The cyberattack forced local police and fire departments to write 911 calls on paper.
Current and former police officers whose offensive social media posts have been compiled and published by the watchdog Plain View Project. Several law enforcement agencies have since taken disciplinary action against those officers or launched their own investigations.
Amount that Google pledged to give toward alleviating the housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area, where its headquarters is located.
Age of Quinton Lucas, the Kansas City Councilor who won the mayor's race on Tuesday. He will be the city's youngest mayor in more than a century.
On Monday, New York joined the 12 other states that let undocumented immigrants get driver's licenses.
Long-term health care workers who are immigrants. According to a new study, the Trump administration's immigration policies could worsen workforce shortages in this industry, which already suffers from high turnover.
Hours that California utilities will start charging customers extra for weekday energy use. It will be the first to implement statewide surge pricing.
This week, Maine joined the seven other states that have legalized physician-assisted suicide -- otherwise known as "death with dignity" or "aid in dying" -- for terminally ill people.
Tenants who comes to court with an attorney. Landlords, meanwhile, almost always have legal representation.
Deadline that a judge gave Missouri to officially deny or grant a license renewal for the state's only abortion clinic.
People who are being kicked off Medicaid in Georgia because, according to the state, they did not respond to renewal notices. Patients say they never received them; their lawyers say there's evidence that they were never sent.
Ice cream trucks that New York City seized last week for repeatedly violating traffic laws and not paying fines.
Size of the disaster relief bill that Congress sent to President Trump this week. The passage of the package ends what was the longest delay between a disaster and congressional aid.
Amount that New York spends on education per pupil, which is the most of any state. Idaho, Oklahoma and Utah spend the least -- less than $8,000 per pupil.
The average cost of a funeral at a time when 40 percent of Americans can’t even afford an unexpected expense of just $400.
States that have applied for the "State Relief and Empowerment Waiver" that the Trump administration started offering last fall. It would allow states to sell health insurance plans that don't comply with Obamacare regulations, such as the preexisting condition protections, and use federal subsidies to make them more affordable.
Municipalities that have suffered a ransomware attack this year, which is on track to exceed last year's total. Baltimore was hacked in early May and still hasn't gotten its services back up and running. It asked the federal government for financial aid.
Mayors who mentioned infrastructure in their State of the City address this year and last year. In 2016, only 31 percent talked about the topic; In 2017, 48 percent.
States that have only one abortion clinic: Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and West Virginia. Come Friday, Missouri's could lose its license, which would make it the only state without one.
State legislators who are Republican women, which represents a decline from before the 2018 midterm elections. Democratic women, by contrast, increased their numbers after November.
States where the measles has made a comeback in the last year, most recently in Maine. The vaccine-preventable infection can cause pneumonia, encephalitis, brain damage and death.
Children at risk of losing their home because a proposed U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development rule would disqualify families from living in public housing if they have an undocumented person living with them.
Money that Mississippi lawmakers gave to Weight Watchers from 2011 to 2016 so teachers could sign up for weight-loss courses at subsidized rates. Most of it came from education funding, and less than $1 million was spent on that purpose.
Unexpected expense that almost half (49 percent) of rural Americans can't afford.
