Around one-in-five candidates for Congress or governor this year are veterans
21% of the roughly 1,000 candidates for U.S. Senate, House or state governor on the fall ballot claim some degree of military experience.
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21% of the roughly 1,000 candidates for U.S. Senate, House or state governor on the fall ballot claim some degree of military experience.
American workers in some sectors and industries are seeing far smaller wage gains than those in others.
Only one of this year’s 35 Senate elections didn’t go the same way as the state’s 2020 presidential vote. The exception was Wisconsin.
Donald Trump’s decision to seek the White House again puts him among a small group of ex-presidents who have then run for elective office.
House Republicans held the fifth-smallest majority in U.S. history at the start of the current congress, tied with the 107th and 83rd Congresses.
The CPI-U is the most widely cited inflation metric, so it’s worth popping the hood and looking inside to see how it works.
Women make up 28% of all members of the 118th Congress, a considerable increase from where things stood even a decade ago.
Third-quarter 2021 inflation was higher in nearly all (39) of the 46 nations analyzed than in the pre-pandemic third quarter of 2019.
As concern about federal spending rises among both Democrats and Republicans, here’s a primer on the national debt of the United States.
Powerful storms, wildfires, heat waves and other extreme climate-related events are projected to become more common and affect more people.
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