News in Numbers
Estimated death toll in Puerto Rico in the months after Hurricane Maria, according to researchers. The island has officially declared only 64 fatalities.
Last time Wyoming let people hunt grizzly bears, which were a protected species in the Yellowstone region until last year. The state will resume grizzly hunting this fall.
Portion of the U.S. population that has experienced 90 percent of the damage from major natural disasters.
The expected number of Americans who won't have health insurance in 2027, which is 5 million higher than the Congressional Budget Office initially predicted. The increase is attributed to rising premiums and the end of Obamacare's individual mandate, which Congress revoked in December.
"Head tax," per employee, that Seattle will soon charge the city's big businesses like Amazon and Starbucks. The revenue will help address homelessness, which has reached emergency levels there. Other cities have a similar tax, but they are much smaller -- just $48.
Amount the teen who started a wildfire in Oregon last year -- by throwing fireworks -- is ordered to pay its victims.
Monthly pension for the now-ex-sheriff's deputy who failed to enter a Parkland, Fla., high school during the February mass shooting that left 17 dead. There have been calls to revoke his retirement benefits, but the governor says state law restricts him from doing that.
Potentially active volcanoes in the United States, including Hawaii's Kilauea, which recently erupted.
Cases of gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis in California last year, which is a 45 percent increase since 2013 and the highest number since at least 1990.
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.
