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  2. Standard of living in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1980, the American standard of living was the highest among the industrial countries, according to the OECD. Out of the 85 million households in the United States, 64% owned their own living quarters, 55% had at least two TV sets, and 51% had more than one vehicle.

  3. List of countries by past life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries showing past life expectancy, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. Life expectancy equals the average number of years a person born in a given country is expected to live if mortality ...

  4. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The economic history of the United States spans the colonial era through the 21st century. The initial settlements depended on agriculture and hunting/trapping, later adding international trade, manufacturing, and finally, services, to the point where agriculture represented less than 2% of GDP .

  5. Income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1980 the middle class earned 17% of total income in the United States. [ 291 ] [ 292 ] [ 293 ] However, by 2019 its share decreased to 14%, a drop of 3%. Another way to see this is that in 1980 the share of the middle class was the same as that of the top 5% but by 2019 the top 5% was 9 percentage points ahead of the middle class.

  6. Emigration from Mexico - Wikipedia

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    The proximity of the United States with its markedly higher standard of living continued to pull the people who had migrated to border region even farther north, and led to higher numbers of migrants crossing the United States – Mexico border. Amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act continued throughout the 1970s. In 1976 the United ...

  7. History of the United States (1945–1964) - Wikipedia

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    The United States helped form a strong military alliance in NATO in 1949 including most of the nations of Western Europe, and Canada. In Asia, however, there was much more movement. The United States failed to negotiate a settlement between its ally, nationalist China under Chiang Kai-shek, and the communists under Mao Zedong.

  8. Latin America–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    In the 1970s and 1980s, the United States gave strong support to violent anti-Communist forces in Latin America. [12] The fall of Soviet Communism in 1989–92 largely ended the communist threat. The North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994 and dramatically increased the volume of trade among Mexico, the United States and Canada.

  9. Economic history of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Pre-Civil War industrial production levels were regained in the early 1950s, though agricultural output remained below prewar levels until 1958. [11] A further impetus to economic liberalization came from the September 1953 signing of a mutual defense agreement, the Pact of Madrid, between the United States and Spain.