News in Numbers
Tax credits that New Jersey is offering the candy company Mars Wrigley Confectionery to locate its new headquarters in Newark.
Increase in state spending from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2017, which is more than double last year's growth rate. The states collectively spent nearly $2 trillion.
The old minimum age to hunt in Wisconsin. As of Monday, the state is one of 35 where children of any age can hunt.
States, cities and counties that are suing at least one prescription drug company. Most are seeking monetary damages for the opioid epidemic. Some also want the drugmakers to change their marketing tactics.
Education funding meant to serve special needs and low-income students that Arizona misallocated over the past four years. Some schools got too much and some not enough.
Amount a Chinese energy company agreed last week to invest in West Virginia's natural gas industry. President Donald Trump was reportedly present at the signing of the deal. Details about it -- such as how many jobs it would create, and how, and what the impact might be on the coal industry -- are sparse.
Pennsylvanians who signed up for the state's medical marijuana registry in its first week.
States where Democrats will have full control in 2018, after the party gained power on Tuesday over the Washington state Senate and the New Jersey governor's office.
Number of Democratic governors in the country, which rose by one on election night after New Jersey elected Democrat Phil Murphy to replace GOP Gov. Chris Christie.
Formal education needed to read and understand the average measure on this year's ballots, according to a readability study.
Time it would take Harris County, Texas, to acquire the 3,300 or so homes on its priority buyout list. Hurricane Harvey, meanwhile, damaged at least 69,000 properties.
Prisoners released early on Wednesday in Louisiana because of a new state law that lets some nonviolent offenders with good behavior shave time off their sentences. The change is expected to drop the prison population by 10 percent and save $264 million over a decade.
The cost of the Gateway Program, a massive undertaking to add tunnels, replace old bridges and expand Penn Station in New York City. Writer Daniel C. Vock stressed that it would be "one of the most expensive infrastructure ventures in the history of the United States."
Amount the city of Boston will start paying landlords who rent to homeless people using housing vouchers. The money is meant to cover unpaid back rent or property damages caused by the tenant. Similar programs exist in almost 10 other jurisdictions across the country.
Governors' seats that political experts predict are vulnerable to being flipped next year, which is almost twice as many as predicted in January. Of those, 12 are held by Republicans and five by Democrats.
The drop in Alaska's Obamacare premiums for silver plans, which are the most popular. It's one of just three states where premiums will go down next year, as the average premium will rise 34 percent.
Frequency that scientists predict catastrophic flooding that used to occur once every 500 years will hit New York City by 2030 to 2045.
Proposals submitted to Amazon from cities, counties and states that want the online retailer to build its second U.S. headquarters in their region. Some offered the company billions of dollars worth of tax incentives.
Money North Carolina has set aside to pay TV and movie producers to film in the state next year. It's triple the 2015 amount but more than half as much as it was paying before that when shows like "Homeland" shot there.
The area that the rash of wildfires afflicting California are now responsible for burning statewide since Sunday, Oct. 8. For the sake of comparison, that area is larger than the 304.8 square miles that comprises all five boroughs of New York City.
The number of times Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said "invest" or a variation of the word during a budget speech. He even used it three times in one sentence: “Because Chicago has been willing to invest in our young people, invest in our future, and address our long-term fiscal challenges, businesses have shown the confidence to hire in Chicago, move to Chicago, invest in Chicago and start up in Chicago.”
The number of proposals -- out of a total of 2,012 that were submitted -- that will move forward for review by the Florida Constitution Revision Commission, a body that meets once every 20 years to consider changes to the state constitution suggested by citizens of the state. The proposals that will be advanced represent less than 0.3 percent of the total that were filed, down from 18 percent the last time the commission met, in 1997.
Amount of time some victims of Hurricane Irma have had to wait in line for food-stamp benefits from the state Department of Children and Families. Tens of thousands of people across the state -- including 50,000 at one site alone -- have camped out for hours, often in hot temperatures, in the past week, overwhelming state workers.
Number of buildings destroyed by wildfires in California in the past week. One blaze alone, the Tubbs fire, has incinerated more than 5,100 structures, making it the single most destructive fire in state history.
Average monthly tax revenue that North Dakota has received from the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Maximum time period the city of Denver will offer rent and utility assistance to low- and moderate-income residents facing potential eviction or loss of a home. The new program starts in November.
Time that parents can be sentenced to jail if their child violates any city law, including bullying, in North Tonawanda, N.Y. The law took effect Oct. 1.
Cities that celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day yesterday. Berkeley, Calif., was the first to make the switch -- in 1992 -- but most of the rest of the cities adopted the new holiday only in the past three years.
