Sam Stebbins - Writer for 24/7 Wall St.
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Self-defense is now the most common reason Americans choose to own guns. As of 2023, 72% of gun owners had a firearm primarily for protection, up from just 26% in 1999, according to the Pew Research...
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For the U.S. Senate, 2023 was a year marked by gridlock and scandal. Last year, productivity in the upper chamber hit a historic low, as the senate enacted only 40 public bills into law, by far the...
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During the pandemic, surging demand for housing — coupled with limited supply — sent home values soaring. Now, with mortgage rates at historic highs, millions of Americans are priced out of the...
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The number of illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border hit an all-time high of nearly 250,000 in December 2023. The surge in undocumented migrants at the end of last year is representative of a...
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For much of the last four decades, rifles have been the best-selling firearm type in the United States. Based on domestic manufacturing data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and...
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The U.S. unemployment rate reached 10% in October 2009, the highest since 1983, and the peak since the Great Recession ended in June 2009. Since then, unemployment has fallen steadily to its current...
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With the 2016 Iowa caucuses next Monday about to kick off the election process for the next President of the United States, questions about the economy are at center stage. In particular, income...
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The largely unexpected rise in support for Republican and Democratic presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders — who represent two vastly different viewpoints — reflects how...
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In the past year, the U.S. population grew by roughly 2.5 million people. International net migration accounted for approximately 46% of this growth. Natural growth — the number of births less the...
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The number of patent grants awarded in the United States fell in 2015 for the first time since 2007. In all, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted 298,407 patents for intellectual...
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This week, the Rams franchise of the National Football League (NFL) announced it would end more than two decades in St. Louis and return to its former home in Los Angeles. The team’s poor...
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Today’s rapid and near-ubiquitous dissemination of news and information means corporations, too, can be more vulnerable to public opinion. For many companies, recovering from a bad reputation can...
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Contrary to popular opinion, violent crime is on the decline. Since 1995, violent crime in the United States has decreased by nearly half from 685 incidents per 100,000 Americans to 366 incidents per...
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