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American Journal of Public Health

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Nov 18, 2025
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do 40 thousand people die everytime unemployment goes up 1%

There is no single authoritative claim in the provided reporting that “40,000 people die for every 1% rise in unemployment.” Academic and public-health studies do find higher mortality associated with...

Nov 6, 2025
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What empirical evidence is cited for and against CRT claims about systemic racism?

Critical Race Theory (CRT) rests on several testable empirical claims: that laws and institutions produce or sustain racial inequalities, that everyday racism and institutional practices shape outcome...

Jan 27, 2026

How have federal agencies historically described officer injuries in controversial shootings, and how often were those descriptions later revised?

Federal agencies and allied data projects have historically reported officer injuries in controversial shootings using terse, often initial incident summaries or aggregated statistics, but comprehensi...

Jan 16, 2026

What are the documented clinical case reports of CBD causing adverse events in patients on DOACs, if any, since 2023?

A targeted review of the supplied literature finds no published clinical case reports since 2023 that directly document cannabidiol (CBD) causing an adverse event specifically in a patient taking a di...

Jan 3, 2026

Which peer-reviewed studies analyze per-capita violent crime and property crime rates across racial groups?

A substantial body of peer‑reviewed research analyzes per‑capita violent and property crime rates across racial and ethnic groups, using both individual‑level longitudinal data and aggregate‑level (ne...

Oct 16, 2025

What was the peak COVID-19 death rate in the US during 2020?

The provided analyses do not state a single numeric for the United States in 2020, so a direct single-value answer is not extractable from these sources. Instead, the materials present —reported COVID...