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SMOKING GUN
AMERICAN CARNAGE: AN INDEX
Here are some metrics of the United States after four years of Donald Trump:
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Unemployment rate in January 2017, when Trump took office: 4.8 percent.
Unemployment rate in April 2020: 14.7 percent.
Number of Americans who were behind in their rent, as of mid-September: 8.3 million.
Number of Americans who lacked health insurance in 2019: 29.6 million, or 9.2 percent of
the population.
Number of Americans who lost jobs with employer-sponsored health insurance as of June 2020: 7.7 million, and 6.9 million dependents.
Increase in wealth by U.S. billionaires in first six months of 2020: $845 billion, up 29 percent.
Increase in the number of Americans living in poverty since March: 8 million.
Personal wealth of top 1 percent of U.S. population: $34.23 trillion.
Personal wealth of bottom 50 percent of U.S. population: $2.08 trillion.
Number of Americans who reported in September 2020 that they lost work because the pandemic made their employer lose business or close down: 19.4 million.
Number of Americans who said in August that there were times during the last week when they did not have enough to eat: 22.3 million.
Amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as of September 2020 (350 ppm is the oft-stated upper limit): 411.29 ppm.
Amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide in 2016, before Trump took office: 402.25 ppm.
Number of guns purchased in the United States from March through September: 15.1 mil-
lion, a 91 percent increase from the same period in 2019.
Federal deficit in fiscal year 2016, before Trump took office: $587 billion.
Federal deficit in fiscal year 2020: $3.1 trillion.
Number of death sentences carried out after Trump lifted the ban on federal executions: Six,
which is more than the combined total of all of the President’s predecessors since 1963.
Number of incarcerated people who’ve died from COVID-19, as of November 13: 1,412.
Number of deaths from the 2016-17 flu season:
38,000.
Number of deaths from COVID-19, which Trump has said is just like the flu, as of November 16: 246,586.
