Keeping Track of the National Report Card (Part Two)

 

I should have done this a while ago! But I had forgotten about it. 

You see, back when Trump was about to take the White House in 2017, I made a blog post to keep track of some stats... You can find it here. 

And now that Trump will be returning to the White House (*shudder*) it's time to check on some of this info again! 

Here we go: 

U.S. Population: 334.9 Million (2023) 

-- that's up from 318.9 Million (2016)

National Debt 35.95 Trillion

-- that's up from 13.62 Trillion

Life Expectancy: 77.43 years

-- that's down from 78.74 years

Percentage of Americans without Health Insurance: 8% (2023)

-- that's down from 11% (2016) 

Number of Cancer Deaths in 2023: 609,820

-- that's up from 2015: 564,800

Number of Heart Disease deaths in 2023: 680,909

-- that's up from 610,000

Of course, now I'm thinking about how the population is grown, so maybe some of these things are on track, statistically speaking? 

Number of Car Accident Deaths: 40,990 (2023)

-- that's up from 32,000 (2015) 

Number of Legal Abortions: 1,037,000 (2023)

-- that's up from 664,435 (2015) 

Number of Births: 3,596,017 (2023)

-- that's down from 3,998,076 (2014)

Number of Americans with Alzheimer's: 6.7 million

-- that's up from 5.4 million

Unemployment Rate: 3.7% (2023)

-- that's slightly up from 3.6% (2019)

-- and a lot more than 4.9% (August 2016) 

Median Household Income: $80,610 (2023)

-- That's up from $55,775 (2017)

Average Price of a Home: $487,300 (2023)

-- that's up from $188,900 (2016)

Average Gas price: $3.10 (November 2024)

-- that's up from $2.32 (Jan 2017)

Poverty line for a family of four: $30,000 (2023)

Percentage of people living below the poverty line: 11.1%

Percent of upper middle-class citizens -- making between $100,000 and $350,000 a year: 29.4%

(2014)  --- this is the same in 2024.

How many millionaires are in the U.S.? This varies based upon search... I'm going with the one that says 22 million... 

And there were only 11 million millionaires in 2019!

There are now 801 billionaires. 

-- that is up from 540

There are 653,104 homeless people living on the streets (2023).

-- that is up from 578,424

I'll work on this more later...