January 3, 2018

Box Score

GOOD TRENDS
Devolution
175 mayors support Paris accords 2017
Economy
The typical household’s income rose more from 2014 to 2016 than in any other two-year period on record, poverty declined significantly, and the share of Americans without health insurance fell to a record low. This marks the first time on record, with data back to 1988, that all three measures of well-being improved for two years in a row. 2017
The unemployment rate hit a 16-year low in May 2017
Unemployment filings at lowest since 1973 2017
Environment
Solar energy booming 2017
Wind and solar hits record ten percent of American power 2017
Health
Breast cancer death rates drop almot 40% 2017
Housing
Number of housing sales highest in ten years 2017
Labor
13 states reach record low unemployment rates 2017
Latino
Latino unemployment rate at historic low 2017
Marijuana
Nearly two thirds of Americans want marijuana to be legal 2017
Media
Breitbart loses its advertisers 2017
Money
In Kansas, even Republicans revolted against tax breaks for the rich 2017
Politics
Millennials turn left 2017
Angry young upset British election 2017
How a far left candidate won in a red state 2017
Americans hold liberal views on most moral issues 2017
Religion
Religious progressives are back in the game 2017

BAD TRENDS 

Afghanistan
Defense secretary admits we're not winning in 16 year old Afghan war 2017
The endless war in Afghanstan 2017
Climate
The Antarctic's melting threat to the rest of the world 2017
Climate change becoming serious public health problem 2017
Culture
Americans less happy with more pain 2017
Economy
Top one percent own 40% of nation's wealth 2017
Rural counties not recovering well from recession
Blacks and latinos headed for zero median wealth 2017
Black families makng less than i 2000 2017
Radio Shack closes 1000 stores 2017
Big drop off in new businesses 2017
In a recent GoBankingRates study, 69% of adults admitted to having less than $1,000 in the bank, while 34% said they actually don't have any savings at all. 2017
69% of American adults have less than $1000 in bank 2017
Nearly two thirds of Americans plan to work past retirement age 2017
Education
For profit charter schools do worse 2017
Environment
Number of flying insects have collapsed by three quarters 2017
Tenth of global wilderness lost in past 20 years 2017
Ethnic
Blacks three times as likely to be killed by cops than whites 2017
Ethnic wealth gap growing 2017
Freedom
A quarter of Americans oppose a free press 2017
Young losing interest in freedom 2017
The civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protests might be illegal today 2017
Health
American life expectancy falls for second year in a row 2017
Out of pocket health spending greatest in decade 2017
Housing
Homelessness increases 2017
The tough state of renters 2017
Income
Estimated portion of Americans born in 1980 who will go on to earn more than their parents did : 1/2 Of those born in 1940 who did : 9/10 2017
Labor
The shrinking job market 2017
Young Americans earn less than in 1975 2017
Social progress
US ranked 18th in social progress 2017
Trump
How Trump plans to hurt the food stamp program 2017
How Trump is sabotaging the American healthcare system 2017
Trump's public works scam 2017
Trump wants to kill train service for 140 million Americans 2017


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