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25% of Americans Can Barely Read (_The Economist_)www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/12/10/are-adults-forgetting-how-to-read
3129 sats \ 61 comments \ @denlillaapan 12 Dec 2024 BooksAndArticles
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America's Problem Is Fragility (The American Mind, Josh Hendrickson)americanmind.org/salvo/our-problem-is-fragility/
1147 sats \ 17 comments \ @denlillaapan 12 Feb BooksAndArticles
Reading For Pleasure Declines in Popularity
583 sats \ 21 comments \ @0xbitcoiner 24 Apr 2024 BooksAndArticles
Narrative Violation: US Millenials Are Buying More Homes
4473 sats \ 12 comments \ @kr 29 Jan 2024 econ
Why are Girls Still Falling Behind in Maths? (The Economist)www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/06/11/why-are-girls-still-falling-behind-in-maths
1965 sats \ 21 comments \ @denlillaapan 18 Jun science
On a silly piece I just saw on Forbesmicah-warren.ghost.io/on-the-stupid-piece-that-forbes-published-2/
576 sats \ 16 comments \ @k00b 7 Dec 2024 bitcoin
No, 60% of Americans aren't "living paycheck to paycheck".
735 sats \ 24 comments \ @tomlaies 2 Dec 2024 econ
Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?www.vox.com/politics/414049/reading-books-decline-tiktok-oral-culture
444 sats \ 12 comments \ @0xbitcoiner 3 Jun BooksAndArticles
Over 3 Million Americans are Homeschooled
4096 sats \ 86 comments \ @kr 24 Feb 2024 charts_and_numbers
Now Everyone Can See It: The Economy Is Terriblewww.zerohedge.com/markets/now-everyone-can-see-it-economy-terrible
1011 sats \ 4 comments \ @siggy47 16 Feb econ
46% of Americans Didn't Read a Book in 2023
802 sats \ 7 comments \ @jakoyoh629 6 Sep 2024 BooksAndArticles
Why Can’t People Read and Write Anymore?
3544 sats \ 57 comments \ @kr 22 Feb 2024 charts_and_numbers freebie
78% say fastfood had become unaffordable luxury. And yet they buy more and more
426 sats \ 7 comments \ @zuspotirko 12 Jun 2024 econ
Economists Are Clueless (The Economist)www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/24/economists-dont-know-whats-going-on
646 sats \ 6 comments \ @denlillaapan 25 Apr econ
Nearly 80% of Americans now consider fast food a 'luxury' due to high priceswww.foxbusiness.com/economy/americans-consider-fast-food-luxury-high-prices
1571 sats \ 20 comments \ @gmd 28 May 2024 econ
TIL: In 1940 93% of Americans Didn’t Think the US Should Declare War on Germany
3180 sats \ 10 comments \ @kr 25 Jan 2024 history
We texted 1,000 Americans about Trump’s tariffs.www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/trump-tariffs-poll-us-economy/
825 sats \ 8 comments \ @zuspotirko 6 Mar econ
Why do we grade kids at all? #13 BTC teacher in Fiat Madland
1374 sats \ 40 comments \ @Shugard 20 Dec 2024 alter_native
Moody's downgrades US credit rating citing rising debtwww.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ge0xk4ld1o
240 sats \ 4 comments \ @south_korea_ln 17 May econ
The Idiocy of the Average - and Why It Matters.www.unz.com/akarlin/stupid-people/
1115 sats \ 3 comments \ @co574 19 Apr BooksAndArticles
Interactive charts: Literacy and Numeracy Rates by Country across Time
517 sats \ 2 comments \ @supratic 20 Jul 2024 charts_and_numbers
Literacy seems to be correlated with latitude in the United States
543 sats \ 6 comments \ @carter 4 Apr charts_and_numbers