Economy
American poverty in three charts
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Transportation & Infrastructure
More people are flying, and being unruly, compared to the first year of the pandemic. Here’s how that impacts on-time arrivals.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Gas prices dropped to $1.95 a gallon in April 2020. By July 2021, they were $3.14 a gallon.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Definitions of infrastructure go beyond transportation and water facilities.
Transportation & Infrastructure
The CDC also estimates that as of mid-March, more than a quarter of recent US cases were caused by the B.1.1.7 strain first detected in the United Kingdom.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Here are five things the November data says about COVID-19.
Transportation & Infrastructure
US airlines reported a net loss of $14.9 billion in the first two quarters of 2020.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Nearly 5.4 million hybrid electric vehicles and over 1.4 million plug-in electric vehicles have sold since they came on the market in 1999 and 2010, respectively.
Transportation & Infrastructure
While ridership is up from April lows, the latest data shows that there were 65% or 520 million fewer rides in July compared with the same month in 2019.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Data on more than seven million commercial domestic flights between Oct. 1, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2019, shows that the average flight within the US arrives at the gate 14 minutes after a scheduled arrival. How does your home airport fare?
