The National Telecommunications and Information Administration published its Next Generation 9-1-1 Cost Study on 2026-04-29. It puts the remaining cost of finishing the nationwide move from legacy circuit-switched 911 to IP-based NG911 at USD 5,802 million to USD 9,277 million a…
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300,000,000–334,914,895as of 2026 capability statements on a 2023-07-01 population base
The National Labor Relations Act gives the Board one lever against an employer that fires a worker for organizing, and that lever has a ceiling written into it. Section 10(c), codified at 29 U.S.C. 160(c), lets the Board order a violator to cease and desist and to take affirmati…
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854–5,173as of 2025 · fiscal year 2025 for the low bound and calendar year 2025 for the high bound
Rehabilitating the non-federal dams of the United States would cost USD 165.2 billion across 88,957 structures, and the high-hazard-potential subset alone — 15,412 dams, the ones where failure is judged likely to cost at least one life — would cost USD 37.4 billion. Both figures…
The United States has no numeric federal staffing floor for nursing homes. CMS finalized one on 2024-05-10 — a registered nurse onsite 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, plus 3.48 total nurse hours per resident day, of which 0.55 had to come from registered nurses and 2.45 from nurs…
United States federal law prices the worst category of workplace safety violation at a maximum of USD 165,514 per citation as of 2026-08-08. That ceiling covers a willful violation and a repeated violation. A serious violation, the next class down, is capped at USD 16,550. Neith…
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130,000,000–155,000,000as of 2026 as published; the agency count carries no stated reference year for the worker figure
The federal rule for sewage sludge spread on farmland, 40 CFR Part 503, sets no limit on PFAS. As of 2026-08-08 the current text of section 503.13 carries numeric limits for nine pollutants, all of them metals and all of them placed there in 1993, and no entry at all for PFOA, P…
A study published on 2024-10-15 in Environmental Science and Technology Letters compared the federal fine particle monitoring network against modeled concentrations for every US census tract and found that 44 percent of urban areas exceeding the new annual PM2.5 standard of 9.0 …
The National Decertification Index is the one national file of police license revocations in the United States. It held almost 25,000 actions as of mid-September 2018, the last count anyone has published, and by that same date 43 of the 45 states that can revoke a police license…
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18,000as of 2023 headcount with a 2020 measured rate
An estimated 4.1 percent of people held in state and federal prisons reported being sexually victimized in the prior 12 months, which the Bureau of Justice Statistics converts to about 49,300 people. The survey was fielded from March 2023 to March 2024 and published in December …
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 did not require existing rail systems to make their stations accessible. It required them to make key stations accessible, on a list each operator drew for itself. In the largest legacy system in the United States the state open data p…
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1,600,000–3,150,000as of 2022 prevalence against station status of 2025-11-19 and 2026-05-08
In calendar year 2024, the Federal Communications Commission reports, neither the Commission nor the Attorney General collected forfeiture penalties or criminal fines for violations of section 227 of the Communications Act, the provision that governs robocalls and caller identif…
Approximately 105,700 public school students in the United States were physically restrained, mechanically restrained, or placed in seclusion during school year 2021-22. That is the figure the Office for Civil Rights published in January 2025, drawn from 17,704 public school dis…
The United States requires catch documentation for imported seafood in 13 species groups and in none of the rest. In fiscal year 2023 that scope reached 773,238,048 kilograms out of roughly 2.4 billion kilograms of seafood the country imported — 32 percent by volume and 30 perce…
A company that wants to put a new substance into food sold in the United States may conclude on its own that the substance is generally recognized as safe, market it, and never tell the Food and Drug Administration. As of 2026-08-04 the public FDA inventory of substances it has …
Supplemental Security Income pays a monthly benefit to aged, blind and disabled people who have almost no income and almost no property. To remain eligible a recipient may hold no more than USD 2,000 in countable resources, or USD 3,000 for an individual with a spouse present. B…
Federal transit formula grants pay 80 percent of the net cost of a capital project and zero percent of operating expense for any transit system running more than 100 peak buses in an urbanized area of 200,000 or more. As of 2026-08-08 that bar reaches 85 agencies, and those agen…
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149,700,000–155,600,000as of National Transit Database report year 2024, populations on the 2020 census urban delineation, retrieved 2026-08-08
The last federal count of truck parking in the United States found about 313,000 spaces nationally, and 98 percent of the 11,696 drivers who answered the accompanying survey reported problems finding safe parking. That count is the 2018 through 2019 cycle of the Jason's Law surv…
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1,676,325–2,190,398as of 2024 employment against 2019 incidence
In 2024 the United States counted 26.8 percent of its unemployed workers as insured unemployed under the regular state unemployment insurance programs. The same federal series put Kentucky at 8.9 percent and Minnesota at 56.3 percent — a 6.3-fold spread between two states runnin…
As of 2026-06-30, NOAA Fisheries manages 522 federally managed stocks and stock complexes, and 256 of them, 49.0 percent, have no overfished determination. A further 151, 28.9 percent, have no overfishing determination. Both totals are addition over the two tables the agency pub…
In 2025 about 28 percent of unemployed workers in the United States received a regular unemployment insurance payment. The value is 28.07 percent as read from the US Department of Labor unemployment insurance chartbook on 2026-08-08, and 26.5 percent as read from the same chart …