News in Numbers
Salary for 28 percent of full-time federal employees. Roughly 6 percent make below $40,000.
Units removed from the rental market in Los Angeles because of home-sharing companies like Airbnb, according to a 2015 study by the Alliance for a New Economy. That's more than 4,000 a year.
Legal fees and court costs Kim Davis incurred after she was sued for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Kentucky GOP Gov. Matt Bevin, who has praised the county clerk as "an inspiration," says she should be responsible for paying them -- not the state.
Children who are U.S. citizens and have parents at risk of being deported if their Temporary Protected Status is revoked in the next year as planned by the Trump administration. TPS provides legal protections for immigrants from countries and regions suffering from political violence or natural disaster.
Fires started by equipment from California's three largest utilities over the course of three years.
Voters that Texas may purge because they may not be U.S. citizens. This is the first of what will be a monthly process by the Secretary of State's office of using new technology to identify potential non-citizens who have registered to vote. Voter advocacy groups argue that the method the state is using is problematic.
Settlement New York City gave the family of Kalief Browder, who killed himself at home after being jailed for three years -- much of it in solitary confinement -- for charges that were eventually dropped of stealing another teen's backpack. His family couldn't afford the $3,000 bail.
Children in Ohio in social services' custody. The state has launched a public awareness campaign to increase interest in foster care and adoption.
The expected drop in class sizes, over the course of three school years, agreed upon by Los Angeles teachers, who ended their strike on Tuesday. Their new contract also includes a pay raise and promises for more counselors, librarians and nurses.
Proportion of traffic deaths related to speeding, which has remained steady since 2000. Meanwhile, many states have been raising speed limits.
Revenue loss that the D.C. Metro is suffering during the federal government shutdown. The transit system may consider "staffing and service adjustments."
"Yes" vote that would be needed to approve future ballot measures under bills being considered in Florida and Missouri. Ohio is similarly considering raising the bar to 60 percent.
Amount that the city of Denver will pay toward a person's mortgage if they have "experienced an income reduction due to involuntary employment change" and were making below 120 percent of the area's median income. Federal workers who are not receiving paychecks because of the shutdown can apply for this new offer.
Bill that the husband of Oregon Gov. Kate Brown sent to President Trump after he cleaned up a national park's bathroom. Park employees are among the hundreds of thousands of furloughed during the government shutdown.
Lead allowed in bottled water under FDA regulations. Meanwhile, the EPA only requires municipal water systems to alert customers if samples exceed 15 ppb, and the agency recommended a threshold of only 20 ppb for its voluntary school testing program.
So-called donor states, meaning their taxpayers pay more in federal taxes than their state receives back in federal funding.
Job openings in the U.S. in October, which was about 1 million more than the number of unemployed workers. The Midwest, Northeast, South and West all had more jobs available than jobless.
Last day for states to request emergency food stamps funding from the federal government. The Trump administration announced that it can fund the program through February, if the government shutdown continues that long, but the money has to be distributed within 30 days of the shutdown's start.
Average monthly rate of teachers and other public education employees quitting their job in the first 10 months of 2018, which is the highest rate on record.
Last time South Dakota lawmakers received a pay raise -- until this year when their pay nearly doubled from $6,000 to $11,300.
Millennials who won state legislative seats in November, which marks the largest new class of that generation. Nearly 800 ran.
Amount now being offered to people to move to Vermont or Tulsa, Okla., and work remotely. Both regions suffer from a worker shortage.
Places with minimum wages above the federal level. Twenty states have raises taking effect this year.
Catholic clergy in Illinois who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing a child but have not been publicly identified by the church. The state's attorney general found a total of 690 accused.
Maximum strength of beer that Colorado supermarkets and convenience stores can sell -- until Jan. 1 when that Prohibition-era law is repealed.
Gun control laws passed by states this year, reversing the recent trend of most gun legislation expanding access to firearms. Since the Parkland shooting in February, student survivors have lobbied for gun control.
States that allow both religious and personal exemptions and have seen a rise in them since 2009. Twenty-nine other states allow either religious or personal exemptions. Three allow neither.
What Mississippi counties spend a year to jail people who haven't been convicted of crimes, which is more than the state spends on child protective services.
