Month: April 2021

Politics

Or we could just add more House seats

There are now 331 million Americans, the U.S. Census Bureau says. That means big changes are coming for the fifty states, which each receive a slightly different allotment of government funds based on their respective populations. But each state also gets a certain number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives based on an approximate formula that starts with each state getting one member … Continue reading Or we could just add more House seats

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COVID-19

More Americans died in 2020 than in any other year ever

As 2020 came to an end, many of us were celebrating what we hoped would be the better year ahead. These were the days before a last-ditch effort to overthrow the U.S. government and install a permanent Trump dictatorship, remember, and COVID vaccines in the world and a new president inbound, the last thing we wanted to do was confront the daunting morbidity of 2020. … Continue reading More Americans died in 2020 than in any other year ever

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