- The US drops to #10 in R&D spending.
- California’s Snowpack is as 0% of normal, which isn’t normal.
- Alaska hits 90 degrees earlier than ever.
- Renewables receive $120B in subsidies per year. Fossil fuels receive $5,400B in subsidies per year.
- Housing the homeless costs $42,700 less than leaving them on the street.
- A modern cell phone has more computing power than an Apollo capsule.
- Black silicon solar cells reach 22% efficiency, a new record.
- Kansas generated 21% of their power from wind, years ahead of schedule.
- Americans tend to have 300,000 items in their houses.
- 82% of all new apartments are being built for luxury tenants.
- 34% of ‘Wall Streeters’ admit to criminal activity.
- UK inflation just hit -0.1%, which is deflation.
- 44% of recent graduates are underemployed.
- Up to 42% of bee hives collapsed last year.
- Median student debt in the US is over $35,000.
- Only 46% of children in the US live in ‘traditional’ families.
- 93M Americans are unemployed, despite unemployment dropping to 5.4%.
- The 1% of the 1% donated 29% of all political donations in the US.
- About 25% of renters spend 50% of their income on rent.
