Among peer countries, the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy at birth for both women and men

The United States has the highest infant and maternal mortality rates out of any other high-income country

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level, 20% are below 5th-grade level

Today, the Republican Party has a 6-3 supermajority on the Supreme Court, and when church and state cases have come before them, all six of those Republicans have behaved exactly how you would expect. That means that the Court is now actively tearing down whatever barrier used to exist between church and state

With one-fifth of states seeing active measles outbreaks, the U.S. is nearing 900 cases

Household food insecurity affected 17.9 percent of households with children in 2023. In some of these food-insecure households only adults were food insecure, while in other households children also experienced food insecurity