California State budget crisis by the numbers

This from today's Sacramento Bee:

• 70: Days into the 2008-09 fiscal year without a state budget.


• $4.25 billion: Payments that state Controller John Chiang couldn't make in July and August because of the missing budget.


• $7.6 billion: Payments that will go unmade in September if there's no budget.


• $1.1 million: Amount that state lawmakers will earn this month, more or less (though they won't be paid until after a budget passes). This doesn't include per diem.


• 0: How many times California lawmakers and the governor have taken this long in years past to finish a budget.


• 873: Number of bills that state lawmakers have passed but not sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.


• 342: Senate bills being withheld.


• 531: Assembly bills being withheld.


• 0: Number of bills Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said (on Aug. 6) that he would sign before there was a budget.


• 1: Number of bills Schwarzenegger has signed so far. (He broke his pledge in order to sign AB 3034, which amended the high speed rail measure on the November ballot.)


• 10,300: Temporary employees the governor laid off by executive order.


• $6.55: The federal minimum hourly wage -- and the amount Schwarzenegger wants to pay state workers to conserve cash during the budget crunch.


• 0: State workers who have been paid the federal minimum wage.


• 85: Days since the state constitutional deadline (June 15) to pass the 2008-09 state budget.


• 125: Days until the constitutional date (Jan. 10) that Schwarzenegger must present the 2009-10 budget.