News in Numbers
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.
Settlement the pharmaceutical company that makes EpiPen has agreed to pay the federal government, 49 states and the District of Columbia. The company was accused of underpaying rebates to Medicaid and Medicare.
Early estimate of Hurricane Maria's damage to Puerto Rico. The island was already bankrupt before the storm hit, with $72 billion in debt.
Election-related tweets in the 10 days before Donald Trump won the presidential race that were from fake, junk and hyper-partisan sources and targeted at West Virginians. A new study shows those sources also targeted 10 other swing states with misinformation.
Amount Texas state Rep. Dawnna Dukes, who was been charged with corruption, spent on an online psychic.
States that are expected to run out of funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program by the end of the year. Congress let the program expire this weekend but is hoping to reauthorize it in the coming weeks.
People who have had their driver's license revoked in just five states because they have court debt. Only four states require officials to determine whether defendants can afford to pay fines before suspending their licenses.
Portion of Arizona state lawmakers who are women, which is the highest female representation of any legislature in the country. Nationally, only a quarter of state legislative seats are held by women.
Major metro areas with the highest black-white segregation that are in the Rust Belt.
Money Florida lost by suspending tolls to help speed up evacuations and relief efforts for Hurricane Irma. It amounted to more than $45 million.
Amount of time HealthCare.gov will be shut down on every Sunday but one during open enrollment for maintenance. Critics have accused the Trump administration of intentionally making it harder for the Affordable Care Act to succeed by also shortening the enrollment period and cutting funding for advertising and navigators, people who help others buy ACA insurance.
Time it took Gatorade to settle a lawsuit from California accusing the company of false advertising for implying in an online game that drinking water slows runners down. The game has since been disabled, and the state is now $300,000 richer.
Illinois state lawmakers who have either resigned this year or said they won't seek re-election, which is about 15 percent of the General Assembly and an unusually large exodus. Many have cited the state's political gridlock and increasingly angry citizenry as reasons for moving on.
States that would face federal funding cuts in 2026 if the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal Obamacare becomes law. Almost all of them expanded Medicaid. Meanwhile, most of the states that didn't expand Medicaid would see an increase in federal funding.
Democratic governors and state attorneys general who are women, which accounts for 20 percent representation. The Democratic Attorneys General Association hopes to increase that number and recently launched "the 1881 Initiative" -- named for the first year that a woman ran, unsuccessfully, for state AG -- to help.
Day that Baltimore's bike-share service will reopen. It shut down this weekend because so many bikes were stolen that the company is installing additional locking devices.
Drop in Louisiana's median income from 2015 to 2016. The only other states where it declined were North Dakota and Wyoming.
Uninsured rate in Texas last year, which was the highest in the country and double the national average. The high number of people without health insurance can be blamed on the fact that the state did not expand Medicaid, has a large immigrant population and has a lower-than-average rate of employers who offer health coverage.
Portion of men's drop in the labor force that a new study suggests can be blamed on the opioid epidemic.
Municipal finance officers who said they are better able to meet the financial needs of their communities -- down from at least 80 percent in each of the last three years.
Homes and businesses -- most of which are in Florida -- that lost power due to Hurricane Irma, as of Monday afternoon. "We’ve never had that many outages, and I don’t think any utility in the country ever has," said the chief executive of Florida's biggest electric company. Utilities said it could be weeks before power is fully restored.
Price of lunch for students in New York City public schools. Starting this year, every student will qualify for free meals in an attempt to reduce the stigma associated with poverty.
States suing President Trump over his decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offered deportation protection to immigrants brought to this country illegally as children.
Toxic pollutants released into the air by oil refineries and chemical plants in the week after Harvey hit Texas. Several of the chemicals are known to cause cancer.
Reduction in federal funding for navigators, trained representatives who help people understand health insurance options and purchase a plan through the Affordable Care Act. The Trump administration announced the cut on Thursday.
Curfew imposed for Houston after police arrested armed robbers hijacking vehicles.
