The Washington Post Grossly Understates the Crime Rate of Illegal Immigrants
…“Fact Finder”—the same source the Post uses to obtain population data for all immigrants—22.5 million non-citizens lived in the U.S. during 2016, or 7.0% of the U.S. population. This is…
Read moreIllegal Immigrants Are Far More Likely to Commit Serious Crimes Than the U.S. Public
…such immigrants spoke about their family’s experiences, and Trump presented an array of government data on criminal immigrants and stated: I always hear that, “Oh, no, the population is safer…
Read moreFalse Arguments Against Evidence of Vote Fraud
…variability of a statistic from a random sample does not depend on the size of the population as long as the population is at least 100 times larger than the…
Read moreCritics Fail to Debunk Explosive Study on Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens
…population as a whole?” Richman replied that because the survey doesn’t provide “a true random sample” of the citizen or non-citizen population, he and his coauthors “confront this issue primarily…
Read moreEffects of Immigration From Impoverished Nations
…are more likely to have a bachelor’s degree than the general U.S. population. Though famous evolutionists have claimed that certain races are inferior or superior to one another, the hard…
Read moreGenuine Facts About Omicron, Delta, Naturally Acquired Immunity, and Vaccines
…of the population are vaccinated than unvaccinated and no vaccine is 100% effective. This is especially true because vaccination has been prioritised in individuals who are more susceptible or more…
Read moreProgressive Myths About Mass Shootings and Weapons of War
…population killed in mass shootings—a rational measure of such carnage—was only 12% higher in the decade after the ban expired. This is nowhere near Feinstein’s factoid of a 183% rise…
Read moreClimate Change Fears of Teen Activist Are Empirically Baseless
…population that was undernourished decreased from 15% to 11%: Moreover, the severity of undernourishment for the malnourished has declined. From 1992 to 2016, while global population increased by 36%, the…
Read moreU.S. Life Expectancy Fell With Covid Vax Rollout, NY Times Blames a Lack of Vaccination and White People
…the rest of those claims are demonstrably false. First, a greater portion of the U.S. population was fully vaccinated against Covid-19 than the European population throughout all of 2021. Even…
Read moreThe Hard Facts on Covid-19 Science Denial
…leveled, the C-19 death rate—or the portion of the population killed by the disease—in the state of: New York is 2.7 times greater than in Arizona, 3.8 times greater than…
Read moreHow Many Americans Go Hungry?
…of the poverty line. (USDA report, page 16) Furthermore, this statistic doesn’t apply to the low-income population as a whole but to low-income households in which “the food intake of…
Read moreSocial Ills That Plague African Americans Coincide With Leftism, Not Racism
…and backgrounds can and do excel—if they have competent schooling. A prime example is Public School 172 in Brooklyn, New York, which in 2009 had: a mainly Hispanic population. one-third…
Read moreUSA Today & Facebook Use Slanderous “Fact Check” to Suppress Facts About Illegal Voting By Non-Citizens
…also said the sample size is too small for a representative sample of the noncitizen population.” In reality, Jones-Correa makes a different claim (debunked below), but neither Cox nor the…
Read moreFour Underused Tools to Stop School Shootings
…than the general population. This is especially true of people who commit indiscriminate mass shootings in which an attacker wantonly kills people in a public setting like a school, park,…
Read moreThere’s No Objective Evidence the Federal “Assault Weapons” Ban Saved Lives
…to common weapons used by citizens for hunting and home defense. Before, during, and after the 1994 law cited by Biden, the portion of the U.S. population killed in mass…
Read moreSubstantial Numbers of Non-Citizens Vote Illegally in U.S. Elections
…The Census Bureau’s estimate for the adult non-citizen population of North Carolina is 479,000 people. Hence, if 2.1% of them cast added votes for the Democrat, this supplied the margin…
Read moreFDA Violated Own Safety and Efficacy Standards in Approving Covid-19 Vaccines For Children
…vaccine used in a younger pediatric population, which may need a different dosage or formulation from that used in an older pediatric population or adults. In that statement, the FDA…
Read moreAre Today’s Newborns the Luckiest Generation in U.S. History?
…year above the rate of inflation, while population has been growing at 0.8% per year. Based on these two figures, he calculates that America will enjoy 34% in real economic…
Read moreQuantifying Illegal Votes Cast by Non-Citizens in the Battleground States of the 2020 Presidential Election
By James D. Agresti November 8, 2020 Based on current population data from the Census Bureau and voting data from previous elections, Just Facts has conducted a study to estimate…
Read moreMain Study Used by FDA to Approve Covid-19 Vaccine Found No Significant Effect on the Risk of Death
…52% of the population was fully vaccinated, while in contrast, there were 23,189 deaths (less than half as many) in September 2020 when 0% of the population was vaccinated. Summary…
Read moreFederal Report on the Death of Jeffrey Epstein is Rife With Evidence of Foul Play
…population. A 2022 academic paper based on interviews with eight people convicted of murdering child sex offenders in prison found that half of them justified their actions by making statements…
Read moreMedia Repeatedly Deceives Public in Hobby Lobby Coverage
…“Pregnancy begins with fertilization of the ovulated oocyte by the sperm.” Nevertheless, writing for Al Jazeera, Marisa Taylor quotes two people from the Office of Population Research at Princeton University—neither…
Read moreBlack People Do Not Suffer Disproportionately From Police Brutality
…portion of the U.S. population than whites. Thus, the odds of being killed by police are higher for each black person than each white person. This frequent argument is highly…
Read moreMajor Media Stories Ignore Immigration Status of High-Profile Murderer
…in the U.S. throughout their criminal careers. This isn’t a complete count because the study: examined only “a portion of the total population of criminal aliens who may be incarcerated”…
Read more1 in Every 39 Americans Will Die of a Drug Overdose at Current Rate
…33 per 100,000 population. In order to measure these deaths in clear, relevant terms, Just Facts enlisted the expertise of a licensed actuary and a Ph.D. mathematician to calculate, double-check,…
Read morePoll Reveals Voters Misinformed About Key Issues
…Less than 1%. At the current U.S. population growth rate and the current per-person trash production rate, the landfill would cover 0.05% of the nation’s land area. More realistically, the…
Read moreThe Impact of Obamacare and Ryancare on Medicare
…American Journal of Public Health “found no association between cost sharing and health status at baseline or follow-up” for “an older, chronically ill population.” Likewise, from 1974-1982, the Rand Corporation…
Read moreLack of Assimilation is Economically Harming Latino Immigrants and Society
…population and about 30% of the world’s languages. Likewise, a 2014 study by the Brookings Institution found that U.S.: workers with limited English proficiency “earn 25 to 40 percent less…
Read morePre-Election Poll: Voters Broadly Misinformed About Key Issues
…than 1%, 1% to less than 5%, or more than 5%? Correct Answer: Less than 1%. At the current U.S. population growth rate and the current per-person trash production rate,…
Read morePoll Reveals Voters are Uninformed About Major Issues
…this cover? Less than 1%, 1% to less than 5%, or more than 5%? Correct Answer: Less than 1%. At the current U.S. population growth rate and the current per-person…
Read moreMisleading Claims that Fuel Hatred Against Police Officers
…than others relative to the rates at which people of different races present a threat of murder. People of African descent comprise 14.2% of the U.S. population, but in 2013…
Read moreThink Progress Exaggerates Child Hunger by 8,000%
…2007, even after adjusting for inflation and population growth. Below is the documentation of these facts, along with the details of how Think Progress and others have distorted the truth….
Read moreMaddow’s Tax and Deficit Doubletalk
…adjusting for economic growth (which accounts for population increases and inflation), our national debt is now 67% larger than the debt Obama railed against in 2006. Finally, linking deficits to…
Read moreHow to Thwart the Nefarious Propaganda Technique of Projection
…the portion of the U.S. population who identify as Christians has declined from about 90% in the early 1990s to 63% in 2022. As for others with biblical moral foundations,…
Read moreBusing, Segregation, and Education
…schooling, students of all races can and do excel. A prime example is Public School 172 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, which in 2009 had: a mainly Hispanic population….
Read moreInsecticide Ban, Not Global Warming, Accords With Outbreak of Disease-Carrying Insects
…“Human population growth and resulting urbanization … was correlated with increased mosquito species richness and decreased relative abundance.” “Surprisingly, we found little evidence that mosquito abundance or diversity responded to…
Read moreShould the U.S. Adopt Australia’s Strict Gun Laws?
…effects. Nevertheless, the above graph allows us to observe trends and constrains the impact of many variables because the data is drawn from large population sets with limited demographic changes…
Read moreFour Fabrications About Firearms
…in any population.” In order to measure what Shermer is driving at with his fake fact, one must compare all of the lives that would be saved if guns did…
Read moreMyths about School Choice and Betsy DeVos
…New York, had: a mostly Hispanic population. one-third of the students not fluent in English and no bilingual classes. 80% of the students poor enough to qualify for free lunch….
Read moreThe School Segregation Farce
…1988 to 18% in 2016. What explains these divergent trends? As the report states, “the driving force” is “an enormous increase in the Latino population.” Since 1970, the portion of…
Read moreKrugman’s Accounting of the National Debt is Jailworthy
…now higher than any era of the nation’s history—even when adjusted for inflation, population growth, and economic growth (GDP). Denying this reality, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman recently wrote two…
Read moreElon Musk is Right and the NY Times is Wrong About Illegal Voting By Non-Citizens
…In stark contrast, 41% of the general U.S. population said they would prefer a bigger government, and 48% said they want a smaller one. A 2012 poll of 2,900 immigrants…
Read moreVital Facts About Covid-19
…the United States have been diagnosed with Covid-19 as of 4:00 PM EST on March 26, 2020. The U.S. population is 329 million people, which means that one out of…
Read moreThomas Jefferson, Racism, and Slavery
…of the population of some areas of Thailand and Burma (Myanmar) were slaves in the 17th through the 19th centuries and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, respectively.”…
Read moreVisa Overstays Don’t Negate the Benefits of Border Barriers
…U.S., and yet, they are still more likely to be incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities than the general U.S. population. Echoing the comments of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate…
Read moreTrump Indicted for Citing Data From Ph.D.-Vetted Study to Challenge Election Fraud
…deems to be reliable. These jurors were drawn from the politically stacked jury pool of Washington, D.C. where 92% of the population voted for Joe Biden. The indictment was obtained…
Read moreFive Fallacies About Guns and Violence
…of gun suicides, but they have not yet been shown to reduce the overall risk of suicide in any population. Fallacy # 5: Guns are rarely used for self-defense In…
Read morePolitiFact’s Deceptive Report on Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens
…example, survey-based estimates indicate that more than six percent of the U.S. population over age 12 uses marijuana on at least a monthly basis—a rate more than 15 times the…
Read moreIs the Official Covid-19 Death Toll Accurate?
…which found that the overall risk of death among people with anxiety is 43% higher than the general population. A study published by the American Medical Association in September 2020…
Read moreSocial Security Has Been Boosted, Not Looted
…and 2016, the U.S. population grew by 61%, while the number of people receiving disability benefits increased by 510%. Despite these clear and dramatic changes that have undermined Social Security’s…
Read moreDonald Trump and the Media Agree on Middle-Class Income, and They are Both Wrong
…by $5,000 since 2000. Trump’s Source The income figures cited by Trump and the media come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. This data indeed shows that inflation-adjusted…
Read moreAOC’s Baseless Accusation That the U.S. Is a “Brutal, Barbarian Society”
…including the vast bulk of their medical costs. Roughly 22% of the U.S. population is on Medicaid, and as the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services explains: Beneficiary cost…
Read moreKrugman and Obama Mislead on Debts and Deficits
…these projections “do not fully reflect long-term budgetary pressures” caused by an aging population, rising healthcare costs, and subsidies of the Affordable Care Act. In the words of CBO, these…
Read moreDo Large National Debts Harm Economies?
…as compared to 7.5% for the entire population. Likewise, an October 2012 poll commissioned by Just Facts found that 23% of all voters (including 43% of Obama voters and 6%…
Read morePolitiFact Covers Up Biden’s Role in the Murder of Laken Riley
…murderers who had served out their sentences or died before then. there “are no reliable population data on all criminal aliens in every U.S. state prison and local jail.” roughly…
Read moreWash Post Repeatedly Botches Fact Check of Trump’s State of the Union Address
…the total population of criminal aliens who may be incarcerated” in the U.S. doesn’t include homicides that didn’t result in arrests, which comprise about 40% of all murders in the…
Read moreAs Murders Soar, FBI Buries the Data
…reliant upon electronic submissions from local and state law enforcement agencies, and many of them are not using it yet. Non-reporting agencies cover 35% of the U.S. population, including the…
Read moreHow Hard and Effectively do Americans Work?
…to population growth and the advance of technology, but the rate of increase for both have been feeble compared to the past, and hence, so has economic growth. Many factors…
Read moreReal Violent Crime Trends
…submitted data to the FBI in 2023 covered 94.3% of the U.S. population and “every city agency” covering a million or more people. On the other hand, the FBI has…
Read morePolitiFact Warps Reality About Left-Wing Activist Inciting Capitol Riot
…of fascists include roughly half of the U.S. population, including police officers, Fox News viewers, Trump supporters, and anyone who stands in the way of their self-described “radical left-wing” agenda….
Read moreMedia and Politicians Twist Trump’s Words About Charlottesville
…the so-called anti-fascists who counter-protested in Charlottesville, use that same rationale to justify assaulting anyone that they deem to be a fascist, which includes roughly half of the U.S. population….
Read moreHow Often Do Citizens Use Guns to Stop Violence?
…protection.” Applied to the U.S. population using standard scientific methods, this amounts to at least 162,000 saved lives per year, excluding all “military service, police work, or work as a…
Read moreDebt Versus Deficit: Obama’s Bait and Switch
…adjusting for economic growth (which accounts for population increases and inflation), the current debt is 66% larger than the debt Obama condemned in 2006. Regarding the implications of this debt,…
Read moreMedia Outlets Stir Racial Strife and Slander Trump for Urging Governors to Protect People’s Rights
…Guns.com, the Warren ruling means “that police have no legal obligation to ‘protect and serve’ the population.” However, the ruling says just the opposite but notes that this duty cannot…
Read morePowerful Groups Are Hiding Facts About Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens
…constitute a representative sample of the population—when in fact—the evidence suggests it does. Just Facts is merely a “website”—when in fact—it is a research and educational institute that has been…
Read moreNew Data on Hunger in the United States
…households. The survey included illegal immigrants, who experience hunger at a much higher rate than the general population, but it did not include homeless people, and per the USDA, this…
Read moreRape Facts and Falsehoods
…Census data. An important benefit of such surveys is that they can achieve considerable accuracy while polling only a tiny portion of the population. As the book Statistics for K–8…
Read moreBernie Sanders’ Education Plan is Rife With Deceit
…18.2% in 2016.” What explains those divergent trends? As the report states, “the driving force” is “an enormous increase in the Latino population.” Since 1970, the portion of K–12 students…
Read moreMedia Misinformation About Arming Teachers
…in the office including the chief.” More importantly, the report explains that the campus population included 26,370 students and “131 major buildings spread over 2,600 acres.” In other words, each…
Read moreComing To Grips With the Facts About Masks
…justify the CDC’s no-end-in-sight mask guidance for the very-low-risk pediatric population, particularly post-vaccination. We came up empty-handed.” The “overall takeaway from these studies—that schools with mask mandates have lower Covid-19…
Read moreWhat the $20 Trillion National Debt Means to You
…faster than inflation and population. By this measure, the national debt is higher than any time in U.S. history except for a passing two-year spike at the climax of World…
Read moreThe Border Is Less Secure Than Ever, and the Implications Are Deadly
…to another.” did not count some crimes because there “are no reliable population data on all criminal aliens in every U.S. state prison and local jail.” Again, those figures only…
Read moreIs President Trump’s Border Wall an Outdated, Ineffective Strategy?
…criminal background checks, and as a result, they have much higher serious crime rates than legal immigrants and the general U.S. population. Highlighting the impact of this, a U.S. Government…
Read moreReporters Distort the Truth About Government Spending
…economy is consumed by government and because this measure accounts for population changes and some of the effects of inflation/deflation. However, for reasons detailed in a Just Facts Radio episode…
Read moreBlame for the National Debt
…metric during times of low-to-moderate inflation. This is because it accounts for population growth, some effects of inflation, and the relative capacity of the government to service the debt. By…
Read moreIs Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinction?
…tasked the EPA, State Department, National Science Foundation, and several other federal agencies to produce a “study of the probable changes” to the “world’s population, natural resources, and environment” up…
Read moreWidespread Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate the Number of Americans Who Are Destitute
…population. This represents merely one of the widely different ways of measuring poverty, but it is the federal government’s official measure, and the media follows suit. As stated in a…
Read moreQuestion of the Day
…for drug dependence or abuse.” These rates are about 12 times the rate of drug dependence or abuse among adults in the general population. Contrary to the belief that prisons…
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…said “the position of the United Nations is that Taiwan is part of China.” Taiwan is currently forbidden from having representation at the UN while having a larger population than…
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Do non-citizens commit imprisonable crimes at a higher rate, a lower rate, or about the same rate as the general U.S. population?…
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…gross domestic product, which is equal to “hours worked times labor productivity.” Total work hours and productivity tend to increase over time due to population growth and the advance of…
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What portion of the U.S. population is regularly enrolled in Medicaid, the federal government’s primary healthcare program for low-income people?…
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What portion of Florida’s COASTAL population has relocated since Al Gore predicted in 1992 that most of Florida’s residents may be displaced by rising sea levels over the next several…
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…ages of 11 to 26. Most of the participants were from a sample of 2,229 youth who were representative of the general population, and the other 543 were children treated…
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