- US GDP was down from 1Q15 at 3.9% to 1.5% in 2Q15.
- The average American worker is paid 1/354th their CEO’s salary.
- 2/3rds of Americans can’t retire at the retirement age of 65.
- The guy who set a minimum salary of $70K saw his business grow >30%, twice.
- In America, 20.7M out of 42.4M renters are paying at least 30% of their income as rent. 11.2M are paying more than 50% of their income as rent.
- The American employment participation rate is relatively stable (~63%) despite drops in unemployment.
- An auto auto (with people aboard) drove across America in 57 hours and 48 minutes.
- The net worth of the top 0.1% of Americans is about the same as the wealth of the bottom 90% of US households.
- Global land (+0.09C) and ocean (+0.07C) temperatures set new record highs in September 2015.
- 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings.
- The EU reported a 23% drop in emissions between 1990 and 2014.
- Indonesia’s 100,000 fires are creating more greenhouse gases than the US economy which is 20 times larger than Indonesia’s.
- Human intuition lost to a machine that made more accurate predictions than 615 of 906 human teams.
- At least 70 percent of Americans accept global warming. Only 16% of Republicans doubt it.
- Taxing the rich more, ~$110,968 would only benefit the poor ~ $1,760 in America.
- As of 2014, the IMF estimates that corporate debt has climbed to $14T, up from $4T ten years earlier.
- Carbon intensity dropped 2.7% in 2014. It needs to drop 6.3% to reach climate goals.
- The majority (54%) expect our way of life to end, and a large minority (24%) expect our species to end.
- In one California county, 1,675 wells have run dry.
- At least 125,000 people already have electrodes in their brains.
- We’ve found 93% of the asteroids that are at least one kilometer in diameter; but there are tens of thousands as small as 140 meters, and millions that are more than 40 meters across.
- The total amount of corporate income held off-shore is approximately 10% of US GDP.
- Only 8% of Americans have confidence in the US Congress and almost a third (32%) believe their local Congresspeople are corrupt.
- Giving money to poor people created jobs for $28,136 less per job than government spending programs in the US.
- Over ten years, Americans with guns killed 346,681 Americans while terrorists killed 312 Americans.
- The wealthy increased their lifespan from 81.7 years to 88.8 years while the poorest saw their lifespan drop from 76.6 years to 76.1 years.
- There are now 58,000,000 refugees worldwide.
- 92% of Americans favor financial security over an expectation of getting ahead.
- California’s cleaner air has led to a 76% decrease in Californians’ associated risk of developing cancer.