News in Numbers
Number of states that require elementary schools to provide at least 150 minutes of physical education a week -- the minimum recommended by the Society of Health and Physical Educators.
Percent increase in cost allowed for rent-stabilized apartments in New York City. The city's Rent Guidelines Board rejected a rent freeze, though landlords argue the increase isn't enough.
Factor by which the number of religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions for kindergarten students increased in Ohio between 2000 and 2014. The state is now struggling to contain a measles outbreak.
Number of California eighth graders given an essay assignment this year about whether the Holocaust occurred.
Amount provided in public financing to "Duck Dynasty" (per episode) from Louisiana, which has earned the state the nickname “Hollywood South.”
The last year Connecticut legislators had a pay raise. The state is waiting for "a general improvement in the economy" to raise base pay above $28,000 a year.
Estimated financial commitment made by the billionaire Koch brothers to the 2014 midterm elections, equivalent to the average annual income of 5,270 U.S. households.
Percent of voters who chose "none of these candidates" in Nevada's Democratic gubernatorial primary. Even though "no one" actually finished first, the runner-up, Robert Goodman, will face the state's Republican governor in the general election.
Percent of Americans who are neither “consistently liberal” nor “consistently conservative," marking a 20-year low of people who fall in the middle of the ideological spectrum.
Percent of consistently liberal Americans who have an unfavorable view of Fox News. Seventy-one percent of their conservative counterparts say the same about MSNBC.
Total amount spent by Randolph–Macon College Economics Professor David Brat by May 21 in his successful campaign to defeat House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. The Cantor campaign, in contrast, spent $168,000 on steakhouses alone.
Approximate cost of pushing back the start time for Montgomery County, Md., schools, from 7:25 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. The superintendent proposed the change so students could get more sleep but recently gave up on the plan "after receiving the final cost estimates."
Ratio of seriously mentally ill people in U.S. state prisons and jails to those in state psychiatric hospitals.
Number of school shootings that have occurred in America since the 2012 tragedy in Newtown, Conn.
Debt over which Equity Residential properties, in East Palo Alto, Calif., attempted to evict a tenant in a rent-controlled apartment in order to raise the rent to market rate in the rapidly gentrifying area.
Number of cyclist fatalities in New York City since its bike-share program started in May 2013.
Miles of bike facilities that Washington, D.C., plans to have by 2040, according to MoveDC, the city’s first comprehensive transportation guide in two decades.
Portion of women in state prisons who are pregnant when they begin their sentence.
Number of West Virginians who have won Powerball tickets worth at least $1 million in 2014. The state ranks first in per capita lottery winnings.
Percent of e-cigarette nicotine poisoning cases in Oklahoma this year that have involved children under the age of six.
Gallons of water California uses annually to grow almonds, which is about 10 percent of the state's total water supply.
Number of Minnesota laws repealed this year as part of Gov. Mark Dayton's "unsession" initiative to get rid of obsolete laws.
The amount New York City spends on each of its students, which is more than any other large public school system in the country.
Amount of money necessary to fix train stations on the French railway network because engineers failed to measure the distance between the tracks and platforms, leaving 341 trains that are too big to fit in the stations.
Estimated number of bees released on Interstate 95 in Delaware, after a tractor trailer carrying 460 hives crashed last week. The bee swarms prompted police to activate the state's "honeybee swarm removal plan," which was established in 1995 and had never been used before.
Cost of a two-year-old, 18,000-seat high school football stadium in Allen, Texas, that is closed for the upcoming season after engineers determined the structure was "not safe for public assembly.” Taxpayers approved a bond issue to pay for the stadium in 2009.
The difference in annual salary between a state legislator serving in New Hampshire ($100) and California ($91,000).
