MAY 2, 2023 – Voter turnout for the 2022 U.S. congressional elections was the second highest for a nonpresidential election year since 2000, with 52.2% of the citizen voting-age population participating. And registration rates were the highest for a midterm election…
Author: Anne Whitaker, Editor
Americans Approve of Fox News Firing Tucker Carlson
Last week, it was announced by Fox News that Tucker Carlson was leaving the network. The network described it as a “mutual decision to part ways” but news reports soon began to circulate that Carlson’s sudden departure was due to…
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Business Operations
APRIL 27, 2023 — The U.S. Census Bureau today released additional data from the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES) covering data year 2021. As part of the 2021 ACES, special questions were asked to gather information about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business operations. Tables provide the impact…
How Americans feel about Clarence Thomas and Supreme Court ethics
In the wake of the revelation that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was offered and accepted lavish trips from a Texas real estate billionaire, its reported that most Americans are in agreement that Thomas’s failure to disclose the trips was…
Gen Z Is Going Vegan
Medical Inspiration Daily For Stronger Society (MIDSS) recently conducted a poll of over 3,000 members of “Gen Z” to learn how the generation will shape the food and health industry. And the results revealed most of them are in favor…
Majority of Americans approve of Trump charges, few think conviction is likely
On Tuesday, former President Donald J Trump was arrested in his home town of New York City and then charged with 34 felony counts for falsifying business records about a series of payments made by his then lawyer Michael Cohen…
More Americans Support Government Limits on Prescription Drug Pricing
Prescription drug manufacturing company Eli Lily announced last week that it was cutting the price of some of its insulin products. This comes after a public pressure campaign called “very successful” by Democratic senator Bernie Sanders when individuals who depends…
More Education Does Not Erase Racial Disparities in Health Coverage, Census says
Research has shown that uninsured rates are lower for people with more education but an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data shows that racial and ethnic disparities in health insurance coverage persist even among the more educated. A recent brief that uses data…
Women’s History Month March 2023
National Women’s History Month traces its roots to March 8, 1857, when women from various New York City factories staged a protest over poor working conditions. The first Women’s Day celebration in the United States was in 1909, also in…
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: May 2023
Congress created Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week in 1978, setting aside early May to coincide with two milestones in Asian/Pacific American history: the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants (May 7, 1843) in the United States, and Chinese workers’ role in…