The world’s 500 richest people gained $1.5 trillion in wealth last year, per Bloomberg. Collectively, their net worth reached $10 trillion for the first time.
7,300 US retail stores closed last year, up 57% from 2023, according to Coresight Research.
More than 80 school shootings took place in 2024, surpassing 2023 for the most school shootings in a single year since CNN began tracking such incidents in 2008.
Amid a minefield of glitchy A.I. search and social media littered with misinformation, Wikipedia has become one of the most trusted places on the internet. It’s now the seventh most popular website worldwide.
May 2024 The US economy has seen 38 consecutive months of job growth through February (the fifth-longest period of employment expansion on record), and the nation’s unemployment rate has been below 4% for 25 straight months — the longest stretch in more than 50 years.
85.9 million eligible voters skipped the 2024 general election, far surpassing the 76.8 million ballots cast for Donald Trump or the 74.3 million for Kamala Harris.
trump 32.4% / dem 31.4% / not voting 36.2%
the national debt is 121% of the US GDP, up from 104% in 2019
feb 2025 A second wave of influenza is hitting doctors' offices and urgent care clinics nationwide, according to the latest national flu data. An estimated 13,000 people, including 57 children, have died from influenza so far this season.
Nearly 447,000 US kids under 3 were unhoused at last count. Trump’s Big Ugly Budget Bill threatens to make that number skyrocket.
July 1st 147,000 jobs were added in June 2025, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%. But this job growth is only within a few industries. The real problem here is skewed reporting: the U.S. needs 250k new jobs each month to keep even with population growth, so that means that the country LOST 80,000 jobs in June.
