News in Numbers
Amount Massachusetts health exchange officials racked up in taxpayer-funded expenses, including a harbor boat cruise, luxury hotel stays, and a $285 cake to celebrate the launch of the Affordable Care Act.
Amount the Texas Department of Transportation will return to tollway users who have been overbilled.
Amount the Secret Service wants lawmakers to provide to build a scale replica of the White House in Beltsville, Md. It would be used to train agents to better protect the presidential mansion.
Number of congressional districts in which trade with China has produced more jobs than it's cost.
Time after which New York state workers’ emails are automatically deleted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration. The purge policy has recently come under fire.
Number of collisions between Washington, D.C., streetcars (which aren't in operation for passengers yet) and motor vehicles since October.
Number of public transit trips Americans took in 2014, which is the most since 1957.
Amount Texas owed in back rent for the building in London it used from 1842 to 1845 when it was an independent sovereign country to conduct diplomatic relations. Texas finally settled up in 1986.
Amount of additional snow that would need to fall on the city of Boston this season to beat its record of 107.6 inches.
Portion of people kept in Ferguson, Mo., jails for more than 48 hours between April and September 2014 who are black.
Number of states with the highest turnout of black voters in 2008 that subsequently passed voter ID laws.
Number of "special conservators of the peace" in Virginia, private citizens who have petitioned courts for the authority to carry guns, display badges and make arrests. The number of SCOPs has doubled in the state over the past decade.
Units of retail edible marijuana products sold in Colorado since the state legalized the substance last year.
The anticipated average increase in insurance premiums sold on the federal exchange if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against Obamacare in King v. Burwell and eliminates subsidies for people in 37 states.
Ratio of annual opioid-painkiller prescriptions in Alabama to people in the state.
The statistical probability of Boston having a 30-day stretch of winter like this one.
The number of states that have started preparing contingency plans in case Congress doesn't renew funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program.
The amount of money Ohio's oil and gas industry donated to the campaign coffer of the state Supreme Court justice who recently ruled that local governments can't regulate drilling.
The amount California spent helping people enroll in Obamacare. Florida put no money toward Obamacare enrollment, but signed up more people than California.
Portion of California inmates killed while in prison, since 2007, who were male sex offenders. This is double the national prison homicide rate.
Amount lawyers have billed North Carolina for their efforts to appeal federal court rulings that have legalized gay marriage in the state.
The amount of time Montgomery County, Md., will delay school start times next year, from 7:25 a.m. to 7:45 a.m., to let students get more sleep.
Amount Washington, D.C., will spend at this year's South by Southwest -- a film, technology and music festival in Austin, Texas -- which is almost three times what the city spent to attend the event in 2014.
Number of people, which is less than one half of one percent, in Tennessee who tested positive for drug use after the state began drug testing welfare applicants.
Share of Indianapolis Public School students disciplined with out-of-school suspensions last year, which is one of the highest rates in America.
The amount Washington, D.C., spent on memorial services for former Mayor Marion Barry, who died in November.
Average increase between 1997 and 2014 in the value of a house located within a half-mile radius of a Starbucks in the United States.
Proportion of states’ total economic activity accounted for by federal spending.
Amount a Canadian woman owes the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children after giving birth in Hawaii while on vacation last year.
