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Nicholas Ascanio
Nick is a writer and producer who has spent his entire professional life searching for imaginative ways to tell a story. Outside of work, you can find him discussing movies with fellow cinephiles, or eating something unhealthy while complaining that he’s getting too fat.
Yahoo News VideoDaily Digit: How do Americans feel about gun control?
According to a new study, 61% of Americans support stricter gun laws. But this number changes based on political affiliation, with Republicans showing less support.
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Daily Digit: Nearly half of Americans live in a household in which someone has a preexisting condition
According to a new study, 44% of adults live in a household where they or a family member have a preexisting condition, with older Americans more likely to report themselves or a family member to be affected.
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Daily Digit: What do Americans believe about political engagement on social media?
Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe social media is important for social change. Minorities are more likely to hold positive feelings towards social media’s role in political/social engagement, while whites are more likely to feel negatively.
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Daily Digit: Number of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. at its lowest level in a decade
According to a new study, 10.7 million undocumented immigrants lived in the U.S. as of 2016. That’s a 13 percent drop from the peak in 2007.
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Daily Digit: An overwhelming majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the country’s health care system
Only 34% of Americans approve of the U.S. health care system, and nearly 80% are dissatisfied with the cost of health care. Americans also feel access to health care is an urgent problem.
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Daily Digit: Americans spent a lot of money on Christmas trees this year
Forty-one percent of American households bought real or fake Christmas trees this year, with many Americans choosing to cut down their own tree.
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Daily Digit: Who would women rather sleep with? People, dogs or cats?
According to a new study, 55 percent of women report sharing a bed with one or more dogs. That’s almost as much as the amount who sleep with a human partner.
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Daily Digit: Cyberbullying is a problem for many teens, especially girls
Nearly 60 percent of teens have experienced cyberbullying, with name-calling and rumor-spreading most common. Girls are much more likely to be the subject of rumors or to receive unwanted explicit pictures.
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Daily Digit: An insulin shortage could affect millions of people with diabetes
Seventy-nine million people with type 2 diabetes will need insulin by 2030, but 38 million of them will have to go without it.
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Daily Digit: Post-millennials are shaping up to be the best educated and most ethnically diverse Americans
Nearly 50% of post-millennials are nonwhite. That would make them the most diverse group America has ever seen.
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Daily Digit: Believe it or not, Chicago is not the murder capital of the U.S.
With 653 murders reported in 2017, it’s no secret that Chicago is a violent city. But when adjusting for its large population, Chicago has fewer deaths per capita than many other cities.
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Daily Digit: America’s obesity problem is getting worse
According to a new study, obesity rates have risen in 34 states. From 2008 to 2009, 26 percent of Americans were obese. That number has risen to nearly 30 percent.
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Daily Digit: The world’s fertility rate has dramatically decreased, but the population continues to grow
According to a new study, the world’s fertility rate dropped by nearly 50 percent between 1950 and 2017.
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Daily Digit: A new tax proposal might make you want to become a vegetarian
A tax on red meat could save the U.S. $20 billion in health care costs, according to a new study. Researchers suggest that processed and unprocessed red meat should be taxed 163 percent and 34 percent, respectively.
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Daily Digit: In the wake of #MeToo, how many people have been publicly accused?
Since the #MeToo movement began, at least 425 people have been accused of sexual misconduct. The hashtag started a movement, and gave women and men the opportunity to speak up.
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Daily Digit: Americans are preparing to spend a lot of money on presents this year
This year, Americans could spend nearly $721 billion on holiday shopping, with the average person spending an average of $885.
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Daily Digit: The gender pay gap is worse than previously thought
Women’s income is 51% less than men’s, according to a new study of women’s income from 2001-2015. It was previously believed that women earned roughly 80 cents for every dollar a man made, but it’s actually less than that.
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Daily Digit: Drug overdose deaths have increased in the U.S. so much that life expectancy has dropped
According to the CDC, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2017. Last year’s tally set a record — the figure is greater than the highest yearly number of deaths from car crashes, HIV/AIDS and gun violence.
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Daily Digit: Number of uninsured children has risen for the first time in nearly a decade
As of 2017, 3.9 million children in the U.S. are uninsured. This is an increase of 276,000 from 2016 and the first time this number has risen in nearly a decade.
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Daily Digit: The birth rate of children with unauthorized immigrant parents has fallen
A new study finds 250,000 children were born to unauthorized immigrants in 2016, the last year for which this information is available. This is a 36% decrease from its peak number in 2007.