Good and bad news

THINGS THAT HAVE GOTTEN BETTER THIS YEAR

Americans Now Living Longer After Heart Attack

Starbucks workers drive nationwide surge in union organizing

Biden Has Already Done More for Rural America Than Trump Ever Did

Unemployment Number Hits 50-Year Low at 1.4 Million

The rise of self organizing workers

Legal pot brought in more than $3.7 billion in 2021

Ranked choice voting growing on campuses

THINGS THAT HAVE GOTTEN WORSE THIS YEAR

More than 107,000 Americans, a record, died of drug overdoses in 2021

U.S. Gun Deaths Surged 35% in 2020, Higher for Black People

Earth has nearly 50 percent chance of hitting key warming threshold in the next five years, report says

Growing number of U.S. dams in poor, high-hazard condition

It's not just home prices. Rents rise sharply across the U.S.

Fewest Americans collecting unemployment benefits since 1970

Newspapers keep eliminating print days

U.S. inflation jumped 8.5% in past year, highest since 1981

Projected temperature for world above safe limit

Federal minimum wage hasn't risen in almost 13 years

It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted.

Rent inflation hits new high, led by Miami with 39% rate