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Tampon Tax Statistics
Tampon tax turns period care into a budget battle that hits real school days, workdays, health and dignity, with global losses from period poverty estimated at $130 billion every year by the World Bank in 2018. The page connects how tax rates inflate costs and push substitutes or skipping products to outcomes such as UK Plan International finding 1 in 10 girls missed school in 2017 and a 2021 survey showing EU averages of 13.5 percent VAT compared with the non EU OECD rate of 8.2 percent.
Government Industry Statistics
Federal debt held by the public hit $26.3 trillion in FY 2023, while interest costs are projected to reach $1 trillion by 2025, even as 30% of marketable debt comes due within a year and the debt to GDP ratio rose to 98%. This Government Industry snapshot ties those pressures to what drives spending, revenue, and operational strain across programs, procurement, and services, including debt held by the Federal Reserve and major holder concentration abroad.
Electoral College Statistics
A 2024 snapshot of Electoral College rules shows how states can steer electors with winner take all, congressional district allocations in Maine and Nebraska, and newer laws pushing faithfulness, even as faithless electors stay rare. See why the presidency has still flipped without matching the national popular vote in 5 of the last 6 elections and check how the system converted state results into totals such as 2016 Florida’s 29 and 2020 Texas’s 38.
Prostitution Government Statistics
See how 2023 Nevada oversight ties prostitution to $50 million in annual state tax revenue, while elsewhere legalization and regulation move the needle on crime, earnings, and health from Amsterdam’s €750 million turnover to New Zealand’s NZ$1.5 billion GDP impact. This Prostitution Government page pairs recent enforcement and health compliance figures with government audit data so you can compare outcomes when sex work is tightly regulated versus left to the shadows.
Polling Statistics
See how polling gets sharper when outreach, calibration, and mode choices are handled with care, including a 3.2% median reduction in nonresponse bias from adaptive mixed-mode strategies and a 0.6% nonresponse bias adjustment rate in weighted meta-analyses. Then compare the business side and execution realities, from $2.4 billion global market size for polling and survey software to the stubborn fact that median absolute presidential polling error is still about 2.4 percentage points near Election Day.
Asylum Statistics
The latest EU+ asylum picture from 2023 shows a record 2.6 million new applications worldwide and an EU+ backlog of 1,047,000 cases, even as decisions swing to 21.5% rejections and refugee status is granted in 45.6% of decided cases. Compare that with Germany’s 351,000 applications and a 44.1% recognition rate alongside the US where affirmative cases pending hit 1,029,270 and removals of denied asylum seekers reached 142,580 in FY2023.
Lockdown Statistics
Remote work didn’t just change how people worked it rewired IT overnight, with 2021 showing $64.0 billion SASE market growth and a $3.5 billion unified endpoint management market, alongside a 72% surge in endpoint counts for companies with remote employees. Lockdown’s most expensive lesson shows up too, from a $8.64 million average data breach cost outside North America in 2020 to IT support costs rising 22%, making this page essential for anyone trying to prevent the next shift from becoming a bill.
Youth Voter Turnout Statistics
The latest youth turnout in the United States hit a record 55 percent for ages 18 to 29 in 2020, but the breakdown is anything but uniform with college educated youth at 65 percent and non college youth at 47 percent, plus first time voters at 53 percent. This page tracks how factors like race, gender, place, and identity shift participation, from 58 percent for young women 18 to 29 to rural youth lagging at 45.3 percent.
Legalizing Prostitution Statistics
From 2020 onward, the contrast is stark: Nevada’s legal brothels recorded zero murders of workers from 1980 to 2020 while illegal Vegas escorting links to 16 murders, and across New Zealand the post 2003 model cut violence against sex workers by 45 percent, backed by police reports. This page pulls together country level outcomes on safety, health, taxes, and trafficking so you can see where legalization worked and where the hardest tradeoffs were.
Pro Gun Statistics
Gun ownership and gun use outcomes don’t move in lockstep with restrictions. From 2013 CDC estimates and 2021 Georgetown survey results showing millions of defensive gun uses with 81.9% involving no shots fired to cross country contrasts like Switzerland’s 0.5 per 100k murders versus the UK’s 1.2, this page pits policy claims against the outcomes Americans actually live with.
Green Card Statistics
In FY 2023, USCIS approved 868,663 adjustment of status cases and issued 1,018,349 green cards, with Mexico leading at 139,740 approvals and family and employment paths splitting at 454,857 and 167,518. You will also see what the wait really looks like, including I 485 family based median processing at 12.5 months as of September 2024 and DV I 485 averaging 8.2 months, plus category breakdowns that explain who got approved and why.
Immigration Detention Statistics
As of August 2023, ICE detention held 36,614 people, a 20% jump from the year before, while daily costs reached $228 per detainee in FY 2022 and only 12% received mental health screenings within 12 hours. The page connects those pressures to oversight findings, facility conditions, medical failures, and outcomes like denied bond, stalled court cases, and thousands of reports of harm.
Ice Raids Statistics
FY 2023 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested 170,590 people nationwide and removed 142,580, with 56% of arrestees from Mexico and 22% of arrests in Texas. The page also revisits workplace raid fallout in places like Mississippi and tracks how major operations and programs shaped detention costs and local impacts.
Tariffs Auto Industry Statistics
Passenger cars faced an average additional Section 301 tariff of 4.0% from 2019 to 2024 after scheduled adjustments, while the rest of the tariff web keeps tightening through safeguards, anti dumping duties, and quota based trade regime shifts. Follow how those policy moves ripple from import prices and vehicle demand to EV battery costs, investment uncertainty, and even sourcing switches, with tangible benchmarks like US passenger vehicle sales volume and global EV adoption.
Low-Income Voting Statistics
In the 2020 election, low-income voters earned a 54.2% turnout rate on households under $25,000, but only 47% of eligible low-income Americans were even registered nationally, leaving the biggest battlefield out of reach before Election Day. See how targeted turnout boosts like SSDI outreach and policy shifts such as same-day registration or voter ID repeal changed outcomes across states where a few percentage points flipped seats.
Gerrymandering Statistics
From 2018 to 2022, courts and ballot reforms have turned gerrymandering from a math trick into a measurable failure, like Pennsylvania Republicans taking 13 of 18 seats on 49% of the two party vote and Texas districts stretching population by up to 25% under Evenwel v. Abbott. See how efficiency gaps and partisan bias indicators such as the 16.2% North Carolina congressional gap and Wisconsin’s 11.82% efficiency gap clash with the fairness scores that independent commissions in California and Colorado achieved.
Federal Government Contracting Industry Statistics
Federal contracting is heading to $812 billion by FY2024 projections, with DoD modernization expected to drive $510 billion while IT rises to $118 billion and cybersecurity climbs to $22.1 billion. The contrast is sharper in recent results too, from $791.3 billion in FY2023 obligations and 62% DoD dominance to competed actions jumping to 42% and small businesses taking 26.8% of prime dollars.
Public Health Statistics
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Border Statistics
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Drug Decriminalization Statistics
See how drug decriminalization is reshaping outcomes with fresh 2025 and 2026 statistics that highlight the gap between what people fear and what the data actually measures. This page pulls together the key figures behind arrests, treatment uptake, and community impact so you can judge the policy on results, not slogans.