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  2. List of countries by unemployment rate - Wikipedia

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    Unemployment rate (2021) [1] This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially ...

  3. List of countries by income inequality - Wikipedia

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    Northern America: High income 35.40 2018 Guatemala: Central America: Upper middle income 48.3 2014 48.28 2014 Guyana: South America: High income 45.0 1998 35.00 2006 Hong Kong: Eastern Asia: High income 42.00 2016 Honduras: Central America: Lower middle income 48.2 2019 48.10 2021 Croatia: Southern Europe: High income 28.9 2021 28.92

  4. Economic policy of the Barack Obama administration

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    Obama presents his first weekly address as President of the United States on January 24, 2009, discussing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Job Growth by U.S. president, measured as cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of term. 2016 was the first year U.S. real (inflation-adjusted) median household income surpassed 1999 levels.

  5. Educational attainment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For adults aged between 25 and 30, the percentage of either high school graduates or GED obtainers was roughly 50% in 1950 versus 90% today. [ 3 ] According to The United States Census Bureau, [ 4 ] from 1940 to 1980, respondents were asked to what their highest grade or year of school completed was.

  6. Minimum wage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    According to the report, approximately 100,000 jobs would be lost under the $9.00 option, whereas 500,000 jobs would be lost under the $10.10 option (with a wide range of possible outcomes). [111] The CBO in 2019 estimated the theoretical effects of a federal minimum wage increase under three scenarios: increases per hour to $10, $12 and $15 by ...

  7. Productivity-improving technologies - Wikipedia

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    Productivity-improving technologies date back to antiquity, with rather slow progress until the late Middle Ages. Important examples of early to medieval European technology include the water wheel, the horse collar, the spinning wheel, the three-field system (after 1500 the four-field system—see crop rotation) and the blast furnace.

  8. Congestion pricing in New York City - Wikipedia

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    The MTA said the lawsuit placed numerous projects and 20,000 jobs at risk; [162] a large portion of the MTA's 2025–2029 capital plan was to be financed by the toll. [163] The proposed toll rates were released in late November 2023, [ 164 ] [ 165 ] and the MTA board approved the toll rates early that December.

  9. List of countries by population (United Nations) - Wikipedia

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    Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.