2020 was the first year since 1947 in which more than 1% of the U.S. population died. (Sorry, been digging around in the mortality data again)
Justin Fox
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- Chicken wings are now substantially cheaper (at wholesale) than before the pandemic
- The number of Americans with disabilities is up by about 2 million since before the pandemic. Wonder why that is? bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
- As a I discovered a couple of years ago by reading the Congressional debates over the 14th Amendment, one should never rely on anything John C. Eastman says about the history of birthright citizenship
- The U.S. House voted 338-70 in 1969 in favor of a constitutional amendment to replace the Electoral College with a direct popular vote (it had a majority in the Senate but couldn't get past the filibuster)Replying to @shadihamidIf the Electoral College is a product of the democratic process (one that was widely accepted until recently), the democratic process is the one thing that can undo it. So Democrats should try to change it, but there's a strong likelihood they'll fail 4/
- The freedom afforded by remote work has allowed WFHers to congregate in such scenic and low-cost locations as ... central DC and the Inner Mission in San Francisco (column and 🧵) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
- Replying to @foxjustAnd while I'm at it, the U.S. cities with the lowest rents (median gross rent, ACS 2016)
- A few months ago, @alexschief pointed out that Minneapolis (population 425,336) was building more housing this year than San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland combined (population 2.2 million). That's still true, and it's not the only one
- Replying to @foxjustSince people keep asking: no, nothing special happened in 1947. It was just the last stop above 1% (until now) in a long mortality decline. Here's the full trajectory since 1900
- An amazing piece of work by @JohnArchibald about a small Birmingham suburb that has gone off the rails
