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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 moreRape Facts and Falsehoods
…they can achieve considerable accuracy while polling only a tiny portion of the population. As the book Statistics for K–8 Educators states, “a national random sample of 1,000 people can…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
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Has the portion of the world’s population that is undernourished risen or declined since 2000? 2 Despite predictions that global warming and overpopulation would cause massive famines, the portion of…
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Accounting for increased population and economic development of U.S. coastal regions, have economic damages from hurricanes generally increased over the past century? 2 A 2018 paper in the journal “Nature…
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…represent about 13% of the U.S. population, 54% of murder offenders, and 33% of people killed by police. In 2018, the academic journal Social Psychological and Personality Science published a…
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…many other murders because (1) it only covers “a portion of the total population of criminal aliens incarcerated at the state and local level” since there “are no reliable population…
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Which of the following nations has the highest reported Covid-19 death rate measured as a portion of the population? 5 As of August 6, 2020, Belgium has the highest reported…
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What portion of all murder victims in the U.S. are comprised of the 13% of the population that is black? 3 In 2016, roughly 53% of all murder victims were…
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…for relatively young females and is not applicable to the entire U.S. population, it implies that the death rate for C-19 is much lower than the rates often reported by…
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…residents have died from the disease as of May 3, 2020. The U.S. population is 330 million, which means that C-19 has killed about one out of every 5,000 U.S….
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…in the Latino population,” which has been driven by immigration. Thus, both “white” and “non-white” schools are becoming less white, but the decrease in predominantly white schools is 11 percentage…
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…an artifact of “increased National Doppler radar coverage, increasing population, and greater attention to tornado reporting.” In contrast, strong-to-violent tornadoes “would have likely been reported even during the decades before…
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…of China.” Taiwan is currently forbidden from having representation at the UN while having a larger population than 72% of UN members and a larger economy than 85% of them….
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…any type of weather-related fatalities, including hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, heat waves, or cold spells. This has occurred in spite of population increases in areas that are prone to extreme weather….
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Which of the following states has the highest Covid-19 death rate in the nation? 4 As of August 17, 2020, a larger portion of New Jersey’s population has died from…
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…nation’s land area would this cover? 3 At the current U.S. population growth rate and the current per-person trash production rate, the landfill would cover 0.06% of the nation’s land…
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…March 20th, a total of 4,032 people in Italy died from Covid-19. Italy’s population is 62,402,659, and its annual death rate prior to the Covid-19 outbreak was 10.7 per 1,000…
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