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Stats for Stories
Profile America's Stats for Stories provides links to timely story ideas highlighting the Census Bureau's newsworthy statistics that relate to current events, observances, holidays, and anniversaries. The story ideas are intended to assist the media in story mining and producing content for their respective audiences. Dates with Presidential Proclamations are marked with (P).
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Stats for StoriesPi Day: March 14, 2025The first 6 digits of pi (π) are 3.14159, which means a good time to celebrate on March 14 (3/14) at 1:59 (am/pm). Pi is infinitely long, a never-ending number.
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Stats for StoriesLunar New Year: January 29, 2025With celebrations also known as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, many people across the world will welcome the Year of the Snake with reunions and hope.
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Stats for StoriesNew Year's Day 2025: January 1, 2025The U.S. Census Bureau projects the U.S. population will be 341,145,670 on Jan. 1 – 2,640,171 or 0.78% more than on New Year’s Day 2024.
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Stats for StoriesNational Poverty in America Awareness Month: January 2025The Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement reports the official poverty rate in 2023 was 11.1%, not statistically different from 2022.
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Stats for StoriesSmall Business Saturday: November 30, 2024In 2022, there were 8,298,562 U.S. business establishments. Most (7,119,920) had 19 or fewer employees and averaged about 4.4, according to the CBP.
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Stats for StoriesNational STEM Day: November 8, 2024The American Community Survey estimates 10.8M Americans 16+ were employed in STEM occupations in 2021, 26.7% women who earned 84.1% as much as men.
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Stats for StoriesNational Manufacturing Day: October 4, 2024The U.S. Census Bureau joins organizations across the country celebrating the importance of the manufacturing sector of the nation’s economy.
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Stats for StoriesPatriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance: Sept 11, 2024The 2022 American Community Survey estimated there were 197,582 U.S. emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics, up from 136,900 in 2010.
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Stats for StoriesWorld Population Day: July 11, 2024The U.S. Census Bureau’s International Database estimates the world population will reach 9 billion in 2037.
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Stats for StoriesJuneteenth (1865): June 19, 2024Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S. as issued by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. In 2021, it became our newest national holiday.
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Stats for Stories2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season: June 1-November 30The U.S. Census Bureau’s OnTheMap for Emergency Management offers real-time access to data about the people living and working in areas affected by hurricanes.
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Stats for Stories*Special Edition* 75th Anniversary of NATO (1949): April 4, 2024The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has grown from 12 to 32 countries with an estimated total 2024 population of 981M. The largest is the U.S. (342M).
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Stats for StoriesCommunity College Month: April 2024In 2022, the Current Population Survey estimated there were 3.5M college students enrolled in two-year institutions, down 2.2M from 5.7M in 2011.
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Stats for StoriesArab American Heritage Month: April 2024Over 3.5 million people identified as Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) in the 2020 Census. The largest Arab groups were Lebanese, Egyptian and Syrian.
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Stats for StoriesNational Doctors Day: March 30, 2024The American Community Survey estimates there were 733,169 civilians 16 years and over employed as “Other physicians” in 2022. Median earnings were $234,274.
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Stats for StoriesMom and Pop Business Owners Day: March 29, 2024The Country Business Patterns program counted 128.3M employment in 2021: 69.4M worked for enterprises with 500+ employees, 59.0M under 500 and 21.5M under 20.
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Stats for StoriesNational Vietnam War Veterans Day: March 29, 2024The 2022 American Community Survey estimated 5.44 million living Americans are veterans of the Vietnam War. We also honor 58,220 dead and 1,577 unaccounted for.
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Stats for StoriesMajor League Baseball Opening Day: March 28, 2024The 2023 Population Estimates of the 25 metro areas with MLB teams found the largest is New York with 19,498,249 and the smallest is Milwaukee with 1,560,424.
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Stats for StoriesWorld Water Day: March 22, 2023Total U.S. construction spending on water supply hit a high of $2.7B in October 2023. That same month had record spending on sewage and waste disposal of $4.1B.
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Stats for StoriesNational Single Parent Day: March 21, 2024The Current Population Survey (CPS) estimates there were 9.8M one-parent households (7.3M mother only and 2.5M father only) in 2023, compared to 1.5M in 1950.
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Stats for StoriesNational Poultry Day: March 19, 2024The County Business Patterns program counted 526 poultry processing establishments in the U.S. with 238,200 employees earning $9.45B in annual payroll in 2021.
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Stats for StoriesCertified Nurses Day: March 19, 2024The 2022 American Community Survey estimates there were 2,607,050 registered nurses employed full-time, year-round in the U.S. (2,247,784 female, 359,266 male).
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Stats for StoriesNational Agriculture Week and Day: March 17-23 and 19, 2024The 2022 American Community Survey estimates there were 463,298 farmers, ranchers and other agricultural managers (402,198 male and 61,100 female) in the U.S.
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Stats for StoriesNational Potato Chip Day: March 14, 2024The U.S. exported $230.6M of potato chips (“prepared or preserved, not frozen”) in 2023. The top importing countries were Canada, Mexico, UAE and Philippines.
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Stats for StoriesEqual Pay Day: March 12, 2024In 1973, full-time working women earned a median of 56.6 cents to every dollar men earned. In 2022 (49 years later), women earned 84.0, a gain of 27.4 cents.
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Stats for StoriesSunshine Week & Freedom of Information Day: March 10-16 & 16, 2024President Johnson signed into law the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act on July 4, 1966. The American Society of News Editors launched Sunshine Week in 2005.
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Stats for Stories96th Oscars/Academy Awards: March 10, 2024The 2021 Annual Business Survey reported 25,755 employer firms in motion picture and sound recording industries, 229,763 employees, and a $19.1B annual payroll.
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Stats for StoriesInternational Women’s Day: March 8, 2024From 2000 to 2022, the percentage of women who work as veterinarians, pharmacists, mathematicians, legislators, and chief executives have all increased.
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Stats for StoriesRed Cross Month: March 2024The U.S. Census Bureau produces timely local data critical to Emergency Management about mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery efforts.
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Stats for StoriesEmployee Appreciation Day: March 1, 2024The American Community Survey estimates that in 2022 there were about 117.0M full-time, year-round civilian workers ages 16 and over in the U.S. and median earn
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Stats for StoriesFrozen Food Month: March 2024The Annual Survey of Manufacturers reported the U.S. frozen food manufacturing industry had 82,991 employees with $4.3B in annual payroll in 2021.
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Stats for StoriesPresidents’ Day: February 19, 2024Observed the third Monday of February, the day honors all former U.S. presidents. President Washington was born Feb. 22, 1732. Lincoln was born Feb. 12, 1809.
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Stats for StoriesSingles Awareness Day: February 15, 2024The 2022 Annual Social and Economic Supplement estimated there were 132.3M unmarried (never married, divorced and widowed) people in the U.S. ages 15 and older.
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Stats for StoriesValentine’s Day: February 14, 2024According to the 2022 American Community Survey, 49.8% of men and 46.3% of women 15 years and over are now married. Never married are 37.2% men and 31.6% women.
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Stats for StoriesMardi Gras: February 13, 2024From Census Day (April 1) 2020 to July 1, 2022, the population of New Orleans (369,749) was down 3.7%. Louisiana was down 1.5% and the U.S. was up 0.5%.
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Stats for StoriesSuper Bowl LVIII: February 11, 2024The big game involves two top-50 U.S. metro areas by estimated population: #13 San Francisco (4,579,599) vs. #31 Kansas City (2,209,494), playing in Las Vegas.
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