Do red or blue states have more welfare
States that vote Democratic (“blue”) and those that vote Republican (“red”) show of welfare spending, program participation, and receipt of federal public-health funds, but the answer to “which has mo...
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States that vote Democratic (“blue”) and those that vote Republican (“red”) show of welfare spending, program participation, and receipt of federal public-health funds, but the answer to “which has mo...
President Trump publicly claimed extraordinarily large drug-price reductions — citing figures like “500%, 600%, 1,000%, 1,500%” — during July and August 2025 remarks and in subsequent events; fact‑che...
The United States does not rank as uniformly "stupid" in available metrics; average national IQ estimates hover near the high 90s (around 97–98) and state-by-state IQ estimates vary by only single-dig...
President Trump’s second-term actions have been alleged to breach multiple international legal obligations across distinct domains: lethal maritime strikes on alleged drug traffickers, unilateral sanc...
Consumer prices rose modestly from 2024 to 2025: U.S. headline CPI shows roughly a 3.0% year‑over‑year increase in multiple monthly snapshots (3.0% for Jan and for the 12 months ending Sep 2025) and t...
Vaccinated individuals consistently show lower risks of severe COVID-19 outcomes—hospitalization and death—than unvaccinated people across multiple datasets and time periods, though . International co...
The available analyses converge on a clear finding: . Multiple 2025 analyses further report worsening child health across mortality, chronic conditions, obesity, and mental health domains compared wit...
Canada’s — when federal and provincial liabilities are combined — sits among the higher end of G7 comparators in 2025, with analyses placing the combined debt‑to‑GDP around , which is comparable to so...
Canada’s national debt per capita in 2025 is reported at about , placing it below the United States’ per-person burden of but above the United Kingdom’s reported in the same year; however, available s...
Sweden's 2024 income tax structure is a combination of municipal (local) proportional taxes and progressive national taxes whose exact brackets and percentages varied across sources; major summaries i...
Wages in 2025 showed modest but consistent gains over 2024: nominal average weekly wages rose about 4.2% between July 2024 and July 2025 and several official series report year‑over‑year wage increase...
Existing reporting and compilations show most countries do have laws restricting pornography access by age or outlawing child pornography; several sources note gaps or uneven implementation in a minor...
Vietnam required banks to collect biometric data and to link or verify accounts against its new digital ID infrastructure as part of Project 06 and a series of State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) circulars; a...
Global plastic production in 2024–2025 is roughly 400–445 million tonnes per year and most of that waste is not recycled: about 9% recycled, roughly half goes to landfill globally, and around a quarte...
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...
Through the first year of President Trump’s second term the data and commentary are mixed: official releases and administration statements highlight strong GDP beats — for example a revised Q2 2025 GD...
Canada’s position on major quality‑of‑life measures shows small numerical shifts but no dramatic collapse or surge across the last decade: the , while city liveability for Canadian cities has fluctuat...
Only a handful of countries have near-zero or very low external public debt: sources list Liechtenstein and Niue as effectively debt‑free, and IMF/Statista and Visual Capitalist data show many small e...
Debate over a “one world government” mixes academic ideas, international reform efforts, and public forums that promote global cooperation—none of which the provided sources say amounts to a single gl...
The largest gaps between U.S. CPI inflation and real wages in the 2009–2025 window occurred during the 2021–2023 inflation surge, when CPI rose much faster than nominal wages and real wages fell for a...