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As the clock hits midnight and a new decade begins January 1, the population of the United States will reach more than 330.2 million.
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Former President Barack Obama and current president Donald Trump were picked by the most Americans as the "person they admired most" in 2019, according to Gallup.
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What has changed in the United States, and changed the country, in the past decade? Among those things at the top of the list is record unemployment, the rise of wireless devices and the ubiquity of...
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According to Reporters Without Borders, the number of journalists killed around the world is high but is the lowest in 16 years.
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A new study indicates that the individual mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) did encourage more people to get insurance coverage. And some Americans will live longer because of it.
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While overall home pricing trends are expected to remain marginally positive in 2020, the prices and the number of homes being purchased in many cities are expected to fall next year.
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Global food prices spiked in November, another challenge to the efforts to feed the world's hungry. Rising prices come at the same time as other factors that represent high hurdles.
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In the first half of this year, some 7 million people around the world have been displaced from their homes as a result of an extreme weather event. The World Meteorological Organization expects the...
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Since the beginning of the Great Recession in 2009, the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has actually increased slightly from 12.561 million to 12.811 million this past October,...
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Research shows that a lack of sleep is a significant factor in the occurrence of heart disease among low-income people.
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Carbon capture technology was supposed to save coal but it hasn't yet and never will. Nor is the technology likely to do anything positive significantly to reduce carbon emissions.
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While automation has long been viewed as a threat to workers at the low end of the income scale, artificial intelligence poses a more significant risk to highly educated and paid workers.
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About half of Americans had a civil legal issue last year. These such things as being injured by someone else in a car accident, getting a speeding ticket, custody and guardianship, divorce or a...
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As of today, Latina workers in the United States will have earned in 23 months the same amount of money a white male earned in the 12 months of 2018.
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One of America's largest states by population has roads littered with items that people have thrown away. Researchers say they have little hope the problem will get better soon.
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