Significant Digits For Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017

$11 per hour A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Significant Digits]( Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017 By [Walt Hickey]( You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. $11 per hour Target will raise its minimum wage in October to $11 per hour, and it’s planning more wage hikes over the next few years. Come the end of 2020, the minimum wage offered by the company will be $15 per hour. [[Bloomberg](] 12 percent Percentage of Americans who want to decrease taxes for the wealthy. Sixteen percent of Americans want to cut taxes for corporations. The majority of Americans — according to a Wall Street Journal poll — instead want to increase the taxes paid by corporations and the wealthy. But it’s looking like the Trump administration’s tax reform plan will include a tax cut for both of those groups. [[The Wall Street Journal](] 21 months Former member of Congress Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in prison for sending lewd messages to an underage girl. [[BuzzFeed](] 21 correctional facilities An inmate in Missouri is seeking to lengthen his time behind bars: Missouri prisons will go smoke-free by April 1 due to a lawsuit filed by an asthmatic man serving a life sentence. There are 21 correctional facilities in Missouri affected by the order and about 30,000 inmates. [[The Associated Press](] $5.1 million Amount made by Jeff and Mark Bass last year from royalty rights they hold in Eminem’s song catalog. Now the pair has agreed to sell up to a quarter of those rights to a start up that’s promising investors a share of those royalties, which they say will increase over time. [[Financial Times](] $1 trillion The Graham-Cassidy health care bill, which now [appears to likely be dead](, would prompt about $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid from 2017 to 2026 compared to funding levels in current law, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. [[FiveThirtyEight](] Like Significant Digits? Like sports? You’ll love [Besides the Points](, our new sports newsletter. If you see a significant digit in the wild, send it to [@WaltHickey](. --------------------------------------------------------------- The Morning Story [Will Alabama Republicans Defy Trump?]( [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Share [Facebook]([Twitter]([Email](mailto:?subject=I%20thought%20you’d%20like%20this%20article%20from%20FiveThirtyEight&body= [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ESPN]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 147 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY 10023.