News in Numbers
Portion of the total housing value of the nation located in New York City, which accounts for 8/1000ths of 1 percent of the land area of the United States.
Increase in inflation-adjusted tuition and fees at America's flagship public universities since 1975.
Amount of revenue California's water utilities stand to lose after the state required citizens to slash their water usage amid a four-year drought. Departments are turning to customers to make up the revenue by increasingly rates and adding drought surcharges.
Share of water consumed annually by California's agriculture industry that is used to grow alfalfa to feed livestock.
Approximate speed of super maglev train, designed to travel inside a vacuum tube, Chinese engineers are reportedly now researching.
Portion of Phoenix's waste that is recycled, far below the national rate of 34 percent.
Number of states -- Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee -- that retain elements of the Confederate flag in their state flags.
The average hourly wage for disabled people working in Rhode Island’s sheltered workshops, which are funded largely through Medicaid as “prevocational training.”
Amount of contaminated sediment, in cubic yards, that General Electric expects to finish removing from the bottom of the Hudson River. That's enough to fill the Empire State building -- twice.
Portion of Wisconsin doctors who fail to meet the state's requirement of 30 hours of continuing medical education every two years, which is the nation's lowest requirement.
Portion of residents in Spokane, Wash., who are black. The head of the city's NAACP chapter resigned Monday amid allegations of lying about her race.
Amount Montgomery County, Pa., will spend to replace 26 signs that spelled the word "commissioners" with only one "m.''
Amount New York City has spent removing wet wipes from its sewer system since 2010.
Amount Nebraska, which just became the first conservative state to ban the death penalty in decades, spent to import illegal execution drugs from India. The state bought enough to carry out more than 300 executions but only has 10 inmates on death row.
Number of high schools in Montgomery County, Md., (out of 25) that are switching to a single color for graduation gowns in an effort to embrace transgender students. Most public schools have different color gowns for boys and girls.
The decline in water usage in California from April 2013 to April 2015, the month the governor ordered residents to cut their usage by 25 percent.
Portion of Houston's 2015 valedictorians who began school as English-language learners.
Number of Texas high school seniors who failed to pass all of the state’s graduation tests but will get their diplomas anyway because of a new law that lets students fail two of the five exams.
Approximate amount Tennessee wrongly paid out in unemployment claims -- to prisoners, dead people and state employees, among others -- over the past six years.
Estimated portion of Alabama residents who celebrate Jefferson Davis Day, a state holiday that occurs the first Monday in June every year. State offices were closed to honor the president of the Confederate States of America.
The number of names Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe reportedly had in his Rolodex in 2012.
Estimated portion of ivory sold in Los Angeles that's illegal under California law.
Amount of time New York City could survive on the water from rain that fell in Texas in the month of May.
Average price for an ounce of marijuana in Washington, D.C. That's slightly above the $324 national average, even though pot is generally cheapest in states where it's legal.
The number of people, which has doubled since 2003, who have health insurance but are paying so much for deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses that they're considered underinsured.
How much Tennessee recently paid an advertising company to design its new logo that some say "a fifth-grader could easily produce on his or her computer at home."
Number of states where someone earning the state minimum wage can afford a market-rate one-bedroom apartment.
