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Saturday, March 10, 2018

NEWS IN NUMBERS

$5,000

MARCH 9, 2018
Donation from U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren to each state's Democratic Party.
Source: Politico

6 months

MARCH 8, 2018
Maximum jail sentence for restaurant workers who provide customers with an unwanted straw, according to a bill introduced in California. The bill's sponsor, Ian Calderon, said it was a drafting error.
Source: Fortune

$155,000

MARCH 7, 2018
Money raised by an online fundraiser started in memory of Philando Castile that is being used to pay all of the school lunch debt for public schools in St. Paul. Castile was fatally shot by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop in 2016.

$23.5 million

MARCH 6, 2018
Money in Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo's budget that relies on revenue from sports gambling, which is illegal unless the U.S. Supreme Court ends the federal ban on it this summer.
Source: Governing

$2 billion

MARCH 5, 2018
Worth of a bond that California lawmakers approved back in 2016 to help finance new housing for the homeless. Not a penny has been spent as the issue of how the debt will be repaid plays out in court.

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