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The United States is one of the biggest paper consumers in the world. Between 1990 and 2002, paper consumption in the United States increased from 84.9 million tons to 97.3 million tons. In 2006, there were approximately 450 paper mills in the United States, accounting for $68 billion. [1]
One estimate put the percentage of online news derived from newspapers at 80%. [11] "Newspapers are doing the reporting in this country," observed John S. Carroll, editor of the Los Angeles Times for five years. "Google and Yahoo! aren't those people putting reporters on the street in any number. Blogs cannot afford it."
The total value produced by the economy is the sum of the values-added by every industry. The expenditure method is based on the idea that all products are bought by somebody or some organisation. Therefore, we sum up the total amount of money people and organisations spend in buying things. This amount must equal the value of everything produced.
The absolute income hypothesis argues that income and demand generate consumption, and that the rise in GDP gives life to a rise in consumption. It was popularized by Keynes. Milton Friedman argues for a permanent income hypothesis, that consumption spending is a function of how rich you are. [6]
Pulp and paper generates the third largest amount of industrial air, water, and land emissions in Canada and the sixth largest in the United States. [12] [13] In 2015, the industry released 174,000 tonnes of emissions to air, water and land (or 5.3%) out of a total of 3.3 million tonnes of emissions released by all industries in Canada. [12]
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Lower-income households had a median income of $35,300; Upper-income households had a median income of $256,900; Middle-income households fell into a range between those two numbers.
During the past twenty years, the United States, like many other countries, has seen a dramatic increase in obesity. In 1991, only four states had obesity prevalence rates as high as 15-19% and not a single state had a rate above 20%. By 2005, only four states reported rates below