Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Drew DeSilver is a senior writer at Pew Research Center.
Workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity is banned in 22 states (including the District of Columbia).
In last year’s elections, winners won by at least 10 points in all but 62 of the 435 House districts.
A mapping tool from Measure of America lets users easily access a trove of health, education and economic data about each state.
Twitter’s large and continuing losses distinguish it from other recent high-profile technology IPOs.
The state of the U.S. recovery, in one chart.
More people look for dates online than for home furnishings, health and personal-care items and several other types of consumer goods.
Nearly half of Chinese say air pollution is a “very big” problem in their country.
More than half of House Republicans who wanted to use the appropriations process to de-fund the Affordable Care Act are from the South.
For both individuals and nations, greater literacy is linked to greater income.
Three-in-ten adult social media users have set up at least one of their accounts to automatically “tag” their posts with their current location.
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