News in Numbers
New tax, per employee, that big companies in Seattle, like Amazon and Starbucks, will soon have to pay. The money will go toward alleviating homelessness, which reached emergency levels in the city in 2015.
Annual taxes that states and local governments could gain now that the Supreme Court legalized sports betting.
People held in Louisiana jails for four years without a trial. "This is a huge problem in Louisiana and it is a problem nationally," said Bruce Hamilton, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Minimum age for getting married in Delaware, with or without a judge's approval. It's part of a growing trend of states raising the marriage age but the first state to make it that high.
The year by which all new homes built in California will have to run on solar power.
The amount of Washington state's GDP growth in 2017. Due to its expanding e-commerce sector and a host of other factors, the state had the largest GDP increase in the country last year.
The number of homes destroyed as of Sunday in Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano eruption. Five other structures were also destroyed.
The amount of Detroit's liabilities it was able to unload in its historic bankruptcy. The city finally emerged from state financial oversight last week, five years after it declared what was then the largest municipal bankruptcy in history.
The total overall pay raise Arizona teachers will be receiving over a two-year period. Teachers in the state have walked out of class all week to protest low pay and low school funding. Late Wednesday night into early Thursday morning, the state legislature finally approved a pay raise deal for some (though not all) teachers. Gov. Doug Ducey signed the deal right away. The deal did not provide for new education funding or raises for non-instructional school staff, frustrating teachers. But most will reportedly end the strike to avoid jeopardizing public support.
The percentage of dockless shared bikes on the street, as compared to traditional station-based shared bikes. The introduction of dockless bikes into several cities last year more than doubled the number of shared bikes on the street, from 42,000 in 2016 to 100,000 in 2017.
The median home price in previously redlined neighborhoods as of 2017. This is two-and-one-half times less than the median home price in the neighborhoods favored by this 1930s federal lending policy.
In Arizona, the gap between teachers' wages and the wages of their college-educated private-sector counterparts. This is the largest pay gap in any state.
People in the U.S. who can't vote because they were convicted of a felony. More than 1 million of them reside in Florida.
Jail time teachers in Colorado could get for striking if a recently introduced bill becomes law. The legislation comes at a time when teachers are leaving classrooms across the country to protest low pay and inadequate education funding.
School districts, out of 13,500 nationwide, that operate on four-day weeks. Most of them are rural, but urban areas have started to make the switch in an effort to save money and attract teachers.
Cost of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's official portrait, which is more than his three predecessors' portraits combined.
Estimate of annual online sales tax revenue that states are missing out on because the federal government bans them from collecting it. The Supreme Court heard a case this week that challenges that ban, but some of the justices raised concerns about ending it.
State funding the Tennessee House revoked this week from the city of Memphis as punishment for removing Confederate monuments last year.
Chicago police officers who have bought homes in high-crime parts of the South and West sides since the mayor revived a program six months ago that offers them $30,000 loans to do so. If they live there for a decade, they don't have to repay the loan.
What California would be divided into if voters approve a proposed ballot measure. Supporters say they have collected enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
Funding deficit for state public pension systems in fiscal 2016, which is a record high and a nearly $300 billion increase from 2015.
Increase in homeownership among black Americans since the Fair Housing Act was signed 50 years ago. Housing advocates say progress has been slow because of the federal government's varied enforcement of the law over the years.
Year the Equal Rights Amendment was introduced in Congress. Almost half a century later, it's still not in the U.S. Constitution because at least two more states still need to ratify it. On Tuesday, which was Equal Pay Day, Republicans in the Arizona Legislature blocked an attempt to debate the gender equality amendment.
Average ratio of students to school counselors in public schools. It's almost double what the American School Counselor Association recommends.
Time a hunger strike lasted at a Washington state prison this month. The 1,000 inmates were protesting the quality of their food, and changes are now reportedly being made.
Incentives Maryland is offering Amazon if the company builds its second headquarters in the state. That's more than any other jurisdiction is publicly offering and $3.5 billion more than the governor originally advertised.
Daily fine that citizens of Deerfield, Ill., can incur if they possess an assault weapon or high-capacity magazines after June 13. The Chicago suburb outlawed both this week.
