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As of 2024 the United States scored 69 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean") according to Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index. When ranked by score, the United States ranked 24th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector.
The earliest recessions for which there is the most certainty are those that coincide with major financial crises. [8] [9] Beginning in 1835, an index of business activity by the Cleveland Trust Company provides data for comparison between recessions. Beginning in 1854, the National Bureau of Economic Research dates recession peaks and troughs ...
The study by Atticus, a workers compensation and disability benefits company headquartered in Los Angeles California, reveals that mental health issues make up 52% of all workplace injury cases ...
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics most recent survey indicates that union membership in the US has risen to 12.4% of all workers, from 12.1% in 2007. For a short period, private sector union membership rebounded, increasing from 7.5% in 2007 to 7.6% in 2008. [ 1] However, that trend has since reversed.
Pesticides in the United States. A plane flying over a field in California, when spraying crops like this there is a chance of pesticide drift, which can affect neighboring towns and residents with adverse reactions. Tractor spraying pesticides, 2008. Pesticides in the United States are used predominantly by the agricultural sector, [ 1] but ...
Deforestation in the United States. Virgin forest in the U.S. In 1620. In 1850. In 1926. In the United States, deforestation was an ongoing process until recently. Between 2010 and 2020, the US forests increased 0.03% annually, according to FAO ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ). [ a]
The United States formally recognizes five racial categories and it also lists them on the US census. Those five racial categories are White, Black/African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander. [ 1] However, within these five racial categories, there are additional subgroups and each of them ...
Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero hunger, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme. Gender equality. Women's rights, global feminism. Commission on the Status of Women, Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) Health. maternal health, extreme poverty. Millennium Development Goals.