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  2. Economy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States economy experienced a recession in 2001 with an unusually slow jobs recovery, with the number of jobs not regaining the February 2001 level until January 2005. [105] This "jobless recovery" overlapped with the building of a housing bubble and arguably a wider debt bubble, as the ratio of household debt to GDP rose from a ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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

  6. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    In 2020, the top industries in the county were health care and social services (16.3% of jobs), manufacturing (13.8%), and retail trade (13.7%). [29] Mining comprised less than 1% of the jobs in the county. Westmoreland County is now believed to be the site of over 100 abandoned mines. [30] [31]

  7. Patty Murray - Wikipedia

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    In response to a February 2021 report by the Congressional Budget Office on the effects of a minimum wage increase, [67] Murray said: "Today's report makes clear what we've known all along: raising the minimum wage — which hasn't increased since 2009 — to $15 an hour isn't just the right thing to do, it's good policy."

  8. Historical rankings of presidents of the United States ...

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    (The numbers below do not match the source where there are ties in the rankings. They have instead been counted as ties are in other polls (e.g. 26, 27, 27, 27, 30 rather than 26, 27, 27, 27, 28 ), so that all categories span the range 1–44.)

  9. List of countries and dependencies by population density

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    List of countries and dependencies showing population densities, populations, and areas Location Pop. /km 2 Pop. /sq mi Population Area (km 2) Area (sq mi) Notes