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Progress in a society can be measured by steady improvement in health outcomes. The United States has made progress in some health areas over the years. Other health issues, however, have proven more...
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The U.S. economy added roughly 2.4 million workers over the past year. Over the same period, the unemployment rate fell from 5.0% to 4.9%, close to the lowest it has been in nearly a decade. The...
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The United States added 5.7 million jobs to the economy over the past decade. Jobs were not added evenly across all industries, with some shedding jobs and others adding them. In some industries,...
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Comparing the quality of governance between states can be challenging. The decisions state governors, legislators, city mayors and other elected officials make can have wide-reaching effects on state...
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Public social spending has remained at approximately 21% of GDP on average since 2009 across 34 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Public spending in the...
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Total student debt in the United States, at approximately $1.26 trillion, is the second largest consumer debt in the country after mortgages. The average debt of all U.S. college undergraduates,...
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The distribution of wealth across the globe is anything but even. North America is home to just 4.9% of the world’s population — and 26.5% of its wealth. Meanwhile, South Asia is home to 23.7% of...
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The U.S. housing market has recovered substantially since the housing crisis. The improvement, however, has been uneven, and in many U.S. cities housing markets continue to struggle. In some,...
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Two-thirds of all employees approve of their CEO, according to employee review website Glassdoor. However, not all CEOs are regarded so well, and some are rated quite poorly. To identify the most...
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one out of every four deaths each year. Some estimate the costs of heart-related health problems will rise to as high...
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Advancements in internet access, computer processing power, data storage capacity, and other technological developments around the world have helped fuel rapid growth in Silicon Valley and in...
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Moving from one city to another is much more common in the United States than it used to be. No matter the reasons for the move — buying a house, looking for a new job, leaving home for the first...
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Violent crime in the United States declined significantly over the past two decades. The violent crime rate fell from 685 incidents per 100,000 people in 1995 to 366 incidents per 100,000 people in...
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Just 1% of Russians approve of U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration — the worst U.S. approval rating of countries in the world and the lowest approval of U.S. leadership in any country in...
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The official poverty rate has been criticized for decades. Based on traditional poverty measures, an estimated 45.7 million Americans live in poverty. However, when taxes, medical bills, and other...
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