"It has to be put into an overall context where, in the last 50 years, if you could believe it, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages are lower today than they were 50 years ago, a massive transfer of ...

The QoG Basic dataset is a smaller version of the QoG Standard dataset. It consists of approximately 400 variables from 80 different data sources related to the Quality of Government. When using QoG ...

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Try it interactively in a Colab notebook. This is a utility library that downloads and prepares public datasets. We do not host or distribute these datasets, vouch for their quality or fairness, or ...

Under the equivalent period under Trump, consumer prices rose by 6.7%. Economists have told PolitiFact that although some Biden policies exacerbated inflation, the primary drivers were the supply ...

WASHINGTON — In a speech from the Ellipse adjoining the White House, one week from Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris drew a sharp contrast with former President Donald Trump, calling ...

Trump said, "I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798." Legal experts told PolitiFact that Trump doesn’t have the authority to use the law to carry out mass deportations and that invoking ...

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The edited image, created by a Trump supporter, substituted Harris’ face for that of a woman in a McDonald’s uniform named Suzanne Bernier ...

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Next, we turned to PolitiFact to check some recent claims around Amendment 4. If passed, Amendment 4 would enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution. Though Floridians have already begun ...