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The US Census: Political Power & $$

The US Census: Political Power & $$

The US Census: Political Power & $$

A headcount determines over a $T in aid and political power for the next decade. Here are its insights.

Our Greatest Threat Is...Ourselves?

Our Greatest Threat Is...Ourselves?

Our Greatest Threat Is...Ourselves?

More than terrorists, cyber-attacks, or nuclear war, it’s our debt that keeps our Department of Defense (DoD) up at night.

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Global poverty halved in the last 60 years
Income inequality is 4:1, not 16:1
The Knicks are relevant
Bitcoin
Deaths from natural disasters are way down
Literacy rates are at an all time high
The poverty rate is only 1%, not 12%
Renewable energy is expanding
Women are more educated than ever before
Child mortality has plummeted
We’ve never had more data or better ways to see the story it tells

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Help Me--and the U.S.--Define Poverty

Help Me--and the U.S.--Define Poverty

Help Me--and the U.S.--Define Poverty

Mollie Orshansky never meant to define poverty in American, but here we are.

Grandfamilies: America's Changing Home Life

Grandfamilies: America's Changing Home Life

Grandfamilies: America's Changing Home Life

Grandma's made me rethink our welfare policy.

Income Policy

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Our World Isn't Static

James Madison's Warning:

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

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