280. Every other high income country covers over 99% 0f its population while we cover only 90%. We spend almost 18% of our Gross Domestic Product (GNP) on healthcare while the other high-income countries average 11.5% of GDP. Where...
The Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area has a population of about 250,000. The Divided States of America has 330 million. The best estimate of the number of usable firearms in the country is 425 million. That’s enough to have 1.3 firearms for each man, woman, child, and baby in the metro...
A town of 10,000, its population is 65% white, 30% Latinx, and 5% Black. The main business is a huge Tyson Foods operation that processes pork and turkey products produced by nearby Iowa pig and turkey factory farms. Cullen has grown up with people like many who took part in the capi...
One might think that as we have traveled 264.2 billion vehicle miles less during this pandemic, that the crash death rate would go way down. Don’t believe it. Inrix, a company that studies traffic patterns, crashes, and associated subjects, says the rate of traffic fatalities has gone up ...
Commissioner John Strand believes a city-wide mask mandate would be an important step in maintaining public health in Fargo. “Fargo is a concentrated population center for our region. And our numbers are unfortunately not going in the right direction,” he says. “. . . While we’ve had...
Why does Singapore have the lowest death rate in the world from COVID-19 and North Dakota the highest? First, Singapore is not known for its individual freedoms. Spitting on the sidewalk can bring you a public caning. I don’t think they have changed. Seatbelts and biker helmets are alway...
the number of resources that would be expended if everybody on earth lived in rich countries. We would then be using all resources at a rate of ten times what we are using today. This would be equal to having 80 billion people on earth. The current world population is about 7.6 billion...
With 12 percent of the population in military service, and every able-bodied man needed to fight the war, the nation needed warm bodies to fill vacated jobs in production, transportation, munitions, mechanics, and construction, as well as many other types of jobs. Car factories needed help ro...
In 2018 the top 400 earners paid a lower effective tax rate than their secretaries and finance managers. In the meantime a minority has gained an ever-increasing share of economic growth. As an example, the top 0.1% incomes have increased 500% from 1970 to 2018 from $1 million to $5 mi...
which is still apparent today. Native Americans have the highest unemployment rate (6.6% compared to 3.9% of the total U.S. population) and the highest poverty rate (28.3%) in the United States. However, the marginalization and difficulties that Native Americans face in light of ...