How much might a government shutdown cost? Plenty, history says
The estimated cost of the two federal government shutdowns in fiscal 1996 was more than $1.4 billion ($2.1 billion in today’s dollars).
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The estimated cost of the two federal government shutdowns in fiscal 1996 was more than $1.4 billion ($2.1 billion in today’s dollars).
More than six decades of global temperature data, condensed into a 15-second visualization.
A summary of where Americans stand on ten key issues likely to come up in President Obama’s State of the Union address.
Almost six-in-ten uninsured Americans live in states that haven’t set up their own health-insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
Supporters of gun-rights tend to feel more strongly about their position, and more willing to act on it politically, than backers of gun-control legislation.
The federal debt ceiling is nearly $16.7 trillion.
Americans have a pretty good sense of how well different aspects of the economy have — and haven’t — recovered from the Great Recession.
Fewer than one in five Americans rate the U.S. economy as “excellent” or “good”
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