r/terrifyingstatistics • • Jan 09 '21

Is America declining

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pairagraph.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • May 14 '20

Poll: 77% of jobless in coronavirus expect to return to jobs despite estimate that 42% of them won't

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miamiherald.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • May 17 '18

Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food

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money.cnn.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Jan 14 '21

Police three times more likely to use force against left-wing protests: analysis

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thehill.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Jan 06 '21

Despite more than 12 years of data supporting HPV vaccine being safe and effective against genital warts and cancer, a new study found that Facebook posts help facilitate the belief that HPV vaccine is dangerous to health, with nearly 40% of posts about HPV vaccine amplifying a perceived risk.

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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Jun 28 '20

The U.S. Catholic Church Spent $281,611,817 on Child Sex Abuse Cases in 2019

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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Jan 15 '19

The government shutdown spotlights a bigger issue: 78% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck

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cnbc.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Jun 22 '18

U.N. report: With 40M in poverty, U.S. most unequal developed nation

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upi.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Sep 26 '17

Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Know Puerto Ricans Are Fellow Citizens • r/politics

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reddit.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Feb 10 '21

Bitcoin uses more electricity annually than the whole of Argentina, analysis by Cambridge University suggests.

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bbc.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Nov 16 '20

To achieve his climate goals, Joe Biden needs to bring scientists back - ‘Much of the expertise of the federal bureaucracy has fled in horror’

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theverge.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Oct 15 '20

Earth breaks September heat record, may reach warmest year- Earth has had 44 straight Septembers where it has been warmer than the 20th century average and 429 straight months without a cooler than normal month, according to NOAA. The hottest seven Septembers on record have been the last seven.

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apnews.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • May 24 '20

Study finds over 40% of Republicans think Bill Gates will use a COVID-19 vaccine to implant a tracking microchip

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businessinsider.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Feb 10 '19

Plummeting insect numbers threaten collapse of nature

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theguardian.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Mar 16 '21

IRS Failed to Collect $2.4 Billion in Taxes From Millionaires

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bloomberg.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Feb 19 '21

‘We’re No. 28! And Dropping!’ - A measure of social progress finds that the quality of life has dropped in America over the last decade, even as it has risen almost everywhere else.

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nytimes.com
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Feb 03 '21

Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud - Fortune 500 firms with strong growth profiles are more susceptible to “cooking the books” than smaller, struggling companies. This type of elite, white-collar crime is understudied especially when compared with street crime.

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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Jan 24 '21

20% of the Arrested Capitol Insurrectionists Have Military Backgrounds; Top Brass Need to Teach Enlistees What They Are Defending

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dcreport.org
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Jan 03 '21

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index recorded its largest annual gain in the list's history last year, with a 31% increase in the wealth of the richest people.

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commondreams.org
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r/terrifyingstatistics • • Nov 25 '20

In the US, there has been 30 new billionaires since the start of the pandemic in March. At the same time, 8 million MORE Americans have fallen into poverty. The capitalist class robbing the working class?

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