According to federal figures, if the students were not included, the New Brunswick grant for 2006 would be $688,000, not $827,000, a 17 percent difference.

Deaths at crossings were up 11 percent last year, to 369, according to federal figures.

When state and then federal figures showed a big achievement gap, that spurred the community into action.

The number of farms has dropped from nearly seven million in the 1930s to about two million, according to federal figures.

Tailpipes account for more than half the state's carbon dioxide emissions, federal figures show.

According to federal figures, only a third of the 6-year-olds who were receiving treatment for autism in 2002 had been identified by age 4.

The new federal figures were published in the journal Health Affairs.

Though still the thinnest state, its lead is slipping, according to the most recent federal figures.

According to federal figures, Colorado paid $46 million in 2005 for the upkeep of illegal immigrant inmates.

It is well known that the ranks of the uninsured have been swelling; federal figures show an increase of 6.8 million since 2000.