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Incentive package offered to the ABC drama "Nashville" from the state of Tennessee, Metro Nashville, the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp. and Ryman Hospitality Properties in order to keep the show filming in the state.
144
Number of votes by which high school senior Saira Blair defeated incumbent Larry D. Kump for the Republican nomination for the 59th District of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
Estimated cost of Arlington, Virginia's streetcar -- up more than $100 million from the previous estimate.
Monthly pension collected by Irene Triplett of Wilkesboro, North Carolina, from her father's service in the U.S. Civil War. Triplett, 84, receives America’s last Civil War pension.
Number of police officers for every 10,000 residents in the District of Columbia, which is the highest rate in the country.
35
Percent decline in government support for America's poorest families (single-parent families with incomes below 50 percent of the federal poverty line) between 1983 and 2004.
16
Percent of North Carolina's registered voters who participated in primary elections Tuesday.
150
Maximum number of cars rideshare companies can have on the road at any time in Seattle. The city was the first to put a cap on this.
Total cost of Phoenix's public-employee retirement system in 2013. The system's fund now only has enough money to cover about 56 percent of its obligations.
3/4
Portion of animals in North American zoos that are overweight.
Chance an average American child eats pizza on any given day.
86
Percent of Florida's public employees who would have to retire at the same time in order for the Florida Retirement System to go bankrupt.
44
Percent of American households that are "middle class," earning between $35,000 to $100,000 annually. In the mid-1970s, 52 percent of U.S. households were earning the equivalent amount.
300
Number of people sentenced to death in the United States between 1973 and 2004 (about 4 percent) who were likely innocent.
Number of video stores remaining in the United States, down from 17,828 in 2006.
40
Percent of U.S. kindergartners who are the children of single mothers.
41
Percent of U.S. cities reporting quantifiable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in city operations.
33%
Decline in black enrollment at the University of Michigan between 2006, when the state's affirmative action ban went into effect, and 2012.
1.4
Ounces of marijuana left so far in "amnesty boxes" at the City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport in 2014.
Amount paid by the Illinois Medicaid program for medical services for people who had already died.
Number of Californians who enrolled in health coverage through the state's insurance exchange, which makes up about one-eighth of both state and federal enrollment on the exchanges.
70
Percentage of same-sex marriages performed in Iowa in the past year that have been between people from out of state.
Number of Wisconsin households expected to apply for federal assistance to help pay their energy bills after the state's ban on disconnecting utility customers in the winter ended Tuesday.
66
Percent of people age 20 to 24 who are employed in the Washington, DC, area -- down from 72 percent in 2000 and portraying a national trend.
Amount of damage caused to a community center in Fort Wayne, Ind., by a single squirrel when the animal got into the structure's electrical system and caused a massive power surge April 1.
31
The number of states where the average annual cost of day care is higher than the annual cost of in-state tuition at a public college.
167
Percent increase in real per capita personal income in Williams County, N.D., between 2007 and 2012 -- the highest increase of any county in the United States.
27
Number of Subway sandwich shops probably robbed by a single man in the Fairfax County, Va., region in the last several weeks, according to police.
Percent of Americans who do not have health insurance, the lowest point since 2008.
80
Percent of federal funding for wireless technology that goes to urban school districts.