NEWS IN NUMBERS

3

The number of states that have started preparing contingency plans in case Congress doesn't renew funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program.

GOVERNING  |  FEBRUARY 26, 2015

$8,000

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.

TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE  |  FEBRUARY 25, 2015

$168 million

The amount California spent helping people enroll in Obamacare. Florida put no money toward Obamacare enrollment, but signed up more people than California.

GOVERNING  |  FEBRUARY 24, 2015

30%

Portion of California inmates killed while in prison, since 2007, who were male sex offenders. This is double the national prison homicide rate.

BUSINESS INSIDER  |  FEBRUARY 23, 2015

96%

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.

THE STAR TRIBUNE  |  FEBRUARY 20, 2015

3/8 of an inch

Amount the Washington Monument has sunk since its 1885 dedication.

THE WEATHER CHANEL  |  FEBRUARY 19, 2015

$107,000

Amount lawyers have billed North Carolina for their efforts to appeal federal court rulings that have legalized gay marriage in the state.

THE NEWS & OBSERVER  |  FEBRUARY 18, 2015

$475,000

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.

THE WASHINGTON BUSINESS JOURNAL  |  FEBRUARY 17, 2015

20 minutes

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.

THE WASHINGTON POST  |  FEBRUARY 13, 2015

37

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.

THINK PROGRESS  |  FEBRUARY 12, 2015

20%

Share of Indianapolis Public School students disciplined with out-of-school suspensions last year, which is one of the highest rates in America.

WISH TV  |  FEBRUARY 11, 2015

$97,391.40

The amount Washington, D.C., spent on memorial services for former Mayor Marion Barry, who died in November.

THE WASHINGTON CITY PAPER  |  FEBRUARY 10, 2015

1/5

Proportion of states’ total economic activity accounted for by federal spending.

THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS  |  FEBRUARY 9, 2015

$850,000

Amount a Canadian woman owes the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children after giving birth in Hawaii while on vacation last year.

HARPER'S  |  FEBRUARY 6, 2015

$55 million

Amount of traffic and parking tickets that went unpaid in Washington, D.C., last year.

THE WASHINGTON POST  |  FEBRUARY 5, 2015

$100 million

Total amount of state aid given to the New Jersey cities of Camden, Harrison, Newark, Paterson, Trenton and Union City to help prevent fiscal difficulties in 2014.

GOVERNING  |  FEBRUARY 4, 2015

400

Minimum number of new teachers the Philadelphia School District plans to hire for the 2015-16 school year after closing schools and laying off teachers for the past few years.

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER  |  FEBRUARY 3, 2015

3

Number of state house speakers indicted over the last 10 months.

GOVERNING  |  FEBRUARY 2, 2015

$238

Amount the beverage industry spent lobbying against a soda tax in Berkeley, Calif., for every vote cast against the initiative. Despite their efforts, voters approved the tax.

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