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Available reporting shows conflicting measures: retail surveys and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) say retail turkey prices in 2025 are lower than in 2024 — a 16% drop for a 16‑pound bird t...
Retail Thanksgiving costs overall are slightly lower in 2025 than in 2024 — the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) reports the classic 10‑person meal averaged $55.18, down about 5% from 2024 . How...
The authoritative U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) figure reported for 2024 puts the . This figure appears repeatedly in the supplied analyses citing USDA data and is presented as part of a broad...
The sources do not identify any university as hosting multiple Turning Point USA (TPUSA) “chapters” — chapters are organized on a one-per-campus model — and no reporting or TPUSA materials in the prov...
You commonly leave words out of writing for two broad reasons reported in the literature: deliberate concision or accidental omission. Style guides and writing teachers promote omitting needless or su...
Measured by real GDP growth and headline inflation, the U.S. economy looks broadly stronger now than 18 months ago: real GDP rebounded to a 3.8% annualized gain in 2025 Q2 after a revised −0.6% in Q1,...
You asked for “Write an essay.” Most contemporary writing guides recommend the same core structure: a clear thesis, an introduction, body paragraphs that develop evidence and analysis, and a conclusio...
Available reporting shows three mainstream, evidence-grounded alternatives to the “spy/capture” idea—crash-and-sink (ditching at sea), Nikumaroro castaway (landing or wreckage on Nikumaroro island), a...
Retail turkey costs are contested in recent coverage: wholesale turkey prices are widely reported as substantially higher year‑over‑year (estimates range from about $1.32 to roughly $2.00 per pound an...
Reports are mixed: some measures find Thanksgiving meal costs down slightly (roughly 2–3%) versus last year while other data and item-specific reports show big price jumps — especially for turkey, whi...
U.S. food inflation eased from the highs of 2022 and 2023 to roughly mid-single and low-single digits in 2024 and into 2025: the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) reported that food price increas...
Charlie Kirk did not speak at the University of Maryland according to the available reporting: contemporary news coverage and campus reports show ; instead the campus-facing references concern a stude...
Sally L. Satel is a Yale-trained psychiatrist, author and long‑time commentator on medicine and public policy whose credentials (M.D., lecturer at Yale, visiting professor at Columbia, senior fellow a...
USDA’s Economic Research Service reported that 13.5% of U.S. households—about 47.4 million people—experienced food insecurity in 2023, with 8.9% of households with children affected and notable dispar...
Federal policy debate over which graduate programs count as “professional degrees” has concrete consequences for teachers because it can affect loan limits, institutional support and grant programs; t...
Wholesale turkey supplies tightened in 2025 largely because of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks and smaller flock sizes, driving wholesale prices up roughly 40–80% year‑over‑year in ...
Retailers are advertising and running deeper turkey discounts in 2025 than in 2024, and multiple industry trackers report the overall cost of a classic Thanksgiving meal fell about 5% year‑over‑year l...
Residency reclassification rules determine whether a student pays in-state or out-of-state tuition and generally require demonstrating permanent residence (often 12 months) and intent not to be in the...
The USDA is not the primary originator of the commonly cited “average Thanksgiving dinner” figure; that number comes from the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual supermarket survey, which reports...
Labor costs emerged in 2025 as a , reflected across government summaries, academic analyses, and industry reports, though sources differ on the *magnitude* and whether labor is the dominant driver ver...