A businessman with no experience in public office is taking over as mayor of Oregon’s biggest city Associated PressDec. 19, 2024 Family of Painter Thomas Hart Benton Alleges Bank Undersold Artwork; Judge Disagrees A Missouri judge has rejected arguments that a bank mismanaged painter Thomas Har...
Dropout rates in the Badger State varied from 2% among Asian students to approximately 11% among Black students, with the latter marking the largest variation compared with the state average and the second-highest rate for Black students nationwide among states with sufficient data. ...
with an income under $15,000 Inequality Gini co-efficient score of the United States Gini co-efficient score for Black/African Americans in the U.S. U.S. female to male earnings ratio of people aged 25 to 34 International comparison OECD poverty rate in the U.S. 2022 Average...
The Aloha State, which relies heavily on tourism, is burdened with high state debt and a lack of growth in key economic areas, while Mississippi's struggles were attributed to its low median household income, high poverty rate, and minimal entrepreneurial activity....
Then, in 2013, I shared some data looking at the value of welfare benefits in each state, compared to both the median wage and to the federal poverty rate. Sadly, those numbers showed it was more lucrative in many states (especially in the Northeast and Hawaii) to live off the government...
The prominent issues of mass incarceration and forced labor make it a "prison nation." The United States is home to 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of the world's prisoners, making it the country with the highest incarceration rate and the largest number of incarcerated...
Property Tax Rate 1 0.31% 2.13% Min. Value Cost of Living Index 2 83 193 Min. Value Rural Poverty Rate 1 7% 22% Min. Value Climate Average Yearly Amount of Sunshine 3 39.3% 82% Max. Value Average Yearly Rain (in Inches) 2 8.1 68.7 Max. Value Yearly Average Number of Very Cold ...
April 1, 2023 Reply The observation in my last post that diplomats in Nairobi and Western capitals were unusually quiet about the Azimio opposition protests and the Government response in Kenya has been somewhat overcome by events. My sense is that with Ruto touring Western Europe and the Biden...
0.82 below the lowest-ranked Canadian province and only 0.08 above the highest-ranked Mexican state. The highest-ranked of the 32 Mexican states are Baja California and Chihuahua with 6.62, followed by Nayarit (6.57), Baja California (6.56), Yucatan (6.53), and Tlaxcala (6.52). They are ne...
While non-Hispanic whites tend to be overrepresented in counts of adults with college degrees, these states have narrowed the gap between them and other racial groups.