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The 2024 presidential election will take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Presidential primaries and caucuses are scheduled to begin in January and will run through June.
The median processing time for family-based immigration applications — for spouses, dependent children, and parents of US citizens — rose from 4.7 months to 11.8 months between 2013 and 2023.
Nearly 40% of 2022 international adoptees were born in one of three countries: Colombia (235), India (223), and South Korea (141).
The Airport and Airway Trust Fund collects revenue from air travel-related taxes and uses it to fund the FAA. In FY 2022, passenger taxes were 71.3% of AATF revenue — but funding depends on congressional extensions for the AATF.
As of October 2023, 53.7% of American adults were able to access and afford the food they wanted all the time.
The Census Bureau estimates there will be 1.2 million more deaths than births in the year 2100.
The Census Bureau categorizes nearly 50 million Americans as “some other race,” the majority of whom are ethnically Hispanic.
Four of the five states with the greatest percentage of highway bridges in “good” condition are in the South.
Arkansas has improved its road conditions the most since 2000, decreasing the percentage of its roads considered “poor” by 26.8 percentage points over 20 years.
The cost of childcare can exceed $23,000 per year and exceeds the federal government’s definition of affordability in all care settings across most states.
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