News Factoids for Third Quarter 2024 (16)

People in Baltimore are dying of overdoses at a rate never before seen in a major American city. The city’s number of overdose fatalities has quadrupled since 2013, and its fatal overdose rate between 2018 and 2022 was more than double that of any other large city.

the number of U.S. companies going bankrupt has hit a 14-year high, a surge expected in a recession, not an expansion

New Mexico is the only state that has both Hate Crimes and Human Rights legislation that includes sexual orientation and gender identity.

July 2024: GOP panics as election will now be fought over policy - that’s a war they can’t win

The number of cities where the price tag of an average entry-level home is $1 million or more has nearly tripled in the past five years.

A combined blood test for cognitive decline has a 90% accuracy rate in determining whether memory loss is due to Alzheimer’s disease,

California has the largest homeless population in the USA, with more than 180,000 of the estimated 653,000 people experiencing homelessness nationwide residing in the Golden State, federal data shows.

late July ground temperatures in East Antarctica have soared more than 50 degrees above normal in the region’s second major heat wave in the past two years.

Federal Reserve data shows that the richest 10% of Americans held 93% of stocks last year.

consumer spending drives 70% of the U.S. economy

economist Thomas Piketty of France found that inequality has spiked during the pandemic, with the world's richest 10 percent now claiming 52 percent of global income

Over the last two decades, the NFL’s total value has gone from $23.46 billion to $190 billion, according to Sportico.

The average American now eats ~42 pounds of cheese a year, an amount that exceeds butter, ice cream, and yogurt combined, according to Bloomberg. It’s also more than double the amount of cheese Americans were chowing down on when the government began keeping track in 1975.

The Economist analyzed data from 7.5 million two-vehicle crashes and found that getting hit by an extra 1,000 pounds of car - about the difference between an SUV and a compact car - increases the likelihood of death by 66%.

Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the U.S. military’s largest overseas base; it is home to 41,000 people and covers more than 3,500 acres.

the median American household income was $80,610 last year, the first statistically significant annual increase since 2019.

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