10 facts about Americans and alcohol as ‘Dry January’ begins
Here are 10 key facts about Americans’ behaviors and attitudes when it comes to drinking alcohol and how these have changed over time.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Here are 10 key facts about Americans’ behaviors and attitudes when it comes to drinking alcohol and how these have changed over time.
Most K-12 students at U.S. public schools have a school year of about 180 days, but when that year starts and ends varies substantially by region.
If Congress passes the Oct. 1 deadline without either a new set of spending bills or a continuing resolution, nonessential operations would be forced to shut down.
The $7.25 federal minimum wage is used in just 21 states, which collectively account for about 40% of all U.S. wage and salary workers.
Powerful storms, wildfires, heat waves and other extreme climate-related events are projected to become more common and affect more people.
Polling organizations have taken close looks at how election surveys are designed, administered and analyzed. We are no exception.
A small but significant share of car owners in the U.S. have traded filling up for plugging in, and many more are thinking of joining them.
The last year the Postal Service recorded any profit was 2006, and its cumulative losses since then totaled $83.1 billion as of March 31.
24% of civilian workers in the United States, or roughly 33.6 million people, do not have access to paid sick leave.
As of the end of 2017, 57% of 167 countries with populations of at least 500,000 were democracies of some kind, and only 13% were autocracies.
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