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2024 report · Local Democracy
206
206 U.S. counties have no local news source at all — no paper, no station, no site covering the place people actually live.
$11,950
Education
in-state tuition at a public four-year college
College Board · 2025–26 school year
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Climate & Energy
solar's share of U.S. electricity, climbing every year
U.S. Energy Information Administration · 2025–2027 forecast
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Artificial Intelligence
of workers use AI on the job, up from 16% a year ago
Pew Research Center · Surveyed Sep 2025
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Healthcare Access
of adults skipped or postponed needed care over cost
KFF Health Tracking Poll · Surveyed May 2025
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Housing
square feet: the median brand-new American house
U.S. Census Bureau · 2025
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I walked the path, did the work, took the classes, checked the boxes. But the first time real economics actually reached me — the kind that shapes your life — was when I got my first 401k and had no idea what I was…
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I use AI every day and it has genuinely made me better at my work. But I can't shake the feeling that I'm training my own replacement for free, and handing the upside to people I'll never meet.
Our town of four thousand fixed its whole pothole budget faster than the county fixed one stoplight — because everyone in the room knew each other's names.
My kid's inhaler was twelve dollars at one pharmacy and three hundred forty at another the same week, same insurance. Nobody could explain the gap — not the pharmacist, not the insurer, not the app.
We put solar on the roof braced to feel broke, and the panels paid for themselves in about six years — now the whole street is asking us how.
I did my own taxes this year for the first time in a while and realized I couldn't explain a single line of the form to my kid. A system this tangled isn't an accident — someone is paid to keep it complicated.
This should not be the case in a country with this billionaire class. Pay should have to be a minimum of what the highest paid employee gets
Twenty-some years in the same classroom and the thing that's changed most isn't the kids — it's how much of my day goes to proving I taught instead of actually teaching.
A good number of my students come in hungry, and we've somehow turned breakfast into a paperwork contest their parents have to win.
What's the downside to putting solar in space for our energy needs?
we need to fix this. insurance isn't working
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Ranked systems seem to be a real way to help independents. Since you can rank your honest first choice with a fallback, it seems to give independents a fighting chance instead of leaving us stuck in a two-party spiral.
I wish school had spent more time on street smarts instead of just book smarts. So much of what actually shaped my life came down to reading people, handling money, knowing when to walk away from a bad deal, and…
Schools should teach basic statistics and how to spot a misleading chart, so people can read the news critically.
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Do you think federal ballot measures would help break Congress' logjam?
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