Mosques were then stratified and ranked by population and state and the number of mosques chosen for each state were determined by the Muslim population ratio among the states.
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They are no keener on a plan to reduce the state prison population by 20, 000 and the number of parolees by a similar number.
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Later that year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law to reduce the prison population by putting low-level offenders in county jails instead of state prisons.
Richardson, reelected with 69% of the vote, says he aims to reduce the share of his state's population that is without health insurance by using the carrot-and-stick approach Massachusetts took this year under Romney.
This is India's largest state and has a population of nearly 170m, dominated by Hindus but including a significant Muslim minority.
Because the exchanges are a federal program, fully funded by Washington, the state government achieves fiscal certainty in that population.
Census estimates for 2004 show that the state's population grew for the first time since 1996, albeit by barely 1, 000 people, to 634, 000.
Three years after Massachusetts enacted its groundbreaking health care reform law, Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006, the number of residents with health insurance has increased by more than 432, 000, roughly the population of Boston, giving the state the lowest rate of uninsured residents in the country.
The state has until 2013 to cut that population to 109, 805, or by 33, 630 inmates, Ms. Thornton said.
In fact, the state has been forced by the United States Supreme Court to reduce the prison population to more manageable levels.
Kelley cited the recent attack of a 6-year-old boy by a wolf as evidence that the state should do more to thin out its wolf population.
It is also impossible not to be numbed by the numbers: More than 2 million people in Ohio -- 18% of the state population -- face what the government terms food insecurity.
Some state Democrats, including Mr. Sweeney, said they believed the candidates for a special election this year would be picked by state party delegates, who might not be as friendly to Mr. Booker as the general voting population.
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