Your fact-checks will appear here
Male given name
The monthly U.S. inflation series for the Biden presidency (January 2021 through January 2025, per available reporting) shows a sharp rise from 1.4% year‑over‑year in January 2021 to a peak near 9.1% ...
About 17–18% of the U.S. population is age 65 or older in recent years, rising from roughly 55.8 million in 2020 to about 58–61 million by 2022–2024, and projected to reach roughly 22–23% by 2050 . Co...
California’s nominal GDP in recent reports ranges roughly from about $3.9 trillion to $4.2 trillion, and that represents roughly 14% of U.S. GDP in several reputable accounts (PPIC and multiple news s...
Monthly CPI inflation (the 12‑month percent change reported each month) is available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and reproduced by data aggregators such as FRED, Trading Economics and speciali...
Retail egg prices averaged roughly $1–$2 per dozen in pre‑pandemic years but jumped sharply by 2024–2025; sources show monthly retail averages around $4.82 at the start of 2023 and spikes into the $5–...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ reconstructed annual unemployment series for 1929–1939—published in a 1948 technical note and later loaded into BLS databases—provides the “official” annual unemploymen...
Unemployment fell sharply from pandemic peaks during Biden’s term — from about 6.4–6.7% in January 2021 to roughly 4.1% by the end of his term — while labor force participation recovered from its COVI...
Cuba entered 1959 with one of the higher GDP-per‑capita levels in Latin America — roughly $2,363 in 1958 and “third in the region” behind Venezuela and Uruguay by some accounts . After the Revolution ...
The available analyses show that official U.S. collections reported as “customs duties” or as CBP duties/taxes/fees differ by source and definition: . These discrepancies stem from different agencies’...
Available analyses disagree on precise attribution, but multiple sources show deficits rose under Republican presidencies in the post‑1980 era (notably Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump) while deficits g...
Through April 2025, BLS monthly releases show cumulative job gains of 143,000 in January, 177,000 in April and 228,000 in March, plus other monthly figures; adding the known monthly BLS totals for Jan...
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) releases GDP by industry and shows private goods-producing industries grew 10.2% and private services-producing industries grew 3.5% in Q2 2025; overall real GDP ...
Headline U.S. inflation — as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) — was about 3.0% on a 12‑month basis through September 2025, with core inflation (CPI excluding food and energy) also near 3.0% ...
The available analyses show , but reported Gini values differ because sources use different scales and reference years. Official series in the provided material report the U.S. Gini around and , while...
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump) was born on 14 March 1869 in the village of Kallstadt (then in the Palatinate, part of the Kingdom of Bavaria), according to multiple genealogical and historical...
California’s GDP per capita in 2024 — commonly reported around $85,000 — is the product of a concentrated, high‑value services mix dominated by information/technology and professional services, while ...
Federal, state and local governments together funded nearly all U.S. education spending in 2023: multiple sources put total K–12 spending in the high hundreds of billions (one estimate at $947 billion...
The most recent authoritative tallies show the U.S. federal government collected roughly $5.0–$5.6 trillion in revenue in 2024–2025 depending on the dataset and accounting method: the Tax Policy Cente...
U.S. headline inflation averaged roughly 3% in early 2025 with year‑over‑year CPI increases of 3.0% from January 2024 to January 2025 and 3.0% for the 12 months ending September 2025; 2022 was an outl...
U.S. customs duty (tariff) receipts for fiscal year 2019 totaled roughly , depending on the data series and exact definition used; when combined with other customs collections (fees, taxes on imports)...