Robert Samuelson posts some 2013 statistics. Sources are at the end of each statistic.
In October, there were almost 5.7 million "missing workers" -- people who had dropped out of the labor force but, under trends prevailing before the Great Recession, would have had jobs or been looking for work.
Counting them would have raised October's unemployment rate to about 10 percent, instead of the reported 7 percent (the Economic Policy Institute).
A low-end iPhone has 240,000 times the memory of the computers on Voyager 1, which is now nearly 12 billion miles from Earth (New York Times, Sept. 13).
Almost three-quarters (72 percent) of online Americans use social networking sites, up from 8 percent in 2005. There are few differences by educational attainment: 67 percent of high-school dropouts are users compared with 72 percent of college graduates (Pew Internet & American Life Project).
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