From 1980–2016, there have been 23 drought events, 24 flooding events, 7 freeze events, 81 severe storm events, 34 tropical cyclone events, 13 wildfire events, and 14 winter storm events with losses exceeding $1 billion (CPI-Adjusted) each across the U.S.

Via NOAA

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When it comes to charitable giving in the United States, it’s not the wealthy northeast and West Coast communities that contribute at the highest rates. It’s the southern states, Utah and parts of Idaho.

Forty-eight of the 50 counties whose residents gave the highest proportion of their income to charity in 2013 were located in those areas, according to recently released IRS figures detailing itemized tax returns. Several of the counties reporting the highest rates of giving are in impoverished areas of Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama.

Religion likely plays a big role in explaining the numbers. A large proportion of charitable giving in those places goes to churches. Residents in Utah and Idaho, home to large Mormon populations, and the South, a center for evangelical Christians, are encouraged from the pulpit to tithe, the practice of giving 10 percent of one’s income to the church.

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Satisfaction with Life Index was created by Adrian White, a social psychologist at the University of Leicester, using data from a metastudy. It is an attempt to show life satisfaction in different nations. In this calculation, subjective well being correlates most strongly with health wealth and access to basic education. This is an example of directly measuring happiness—asking people how happy they are—as an alternative to traditional measures of policy success such as GDP or GNP. Some studies suggest that happiness can be measured effectively.

This Index, however, is not solely based on directly asking “how people feel”, but also on its social and economic development.

Life satisfaction is the way persons evaluate their lives and how they feel about where they are going in the future. It is a measure of well-being and may be assessed in terms of mood, satisfaction with relations with others and with achieved goals, self-concepts, and self-perceived ability to cope with daily life. It is having a favorable attitude of one’s life as a whole rather than an assessment of current feelings. Life satisfaction has been measured in relation to economic standing, amount of education, experiences, and residence, as well as many other topics.

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The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Where to be Born Index attempts to measure which country will provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years ahead. It is based on a method that links the results of subjective life-satisfaction surveys to the objective determinants of quality of life across countries along with a forward-looking element.

1. Switzerland 8.22

2. Australia 8.12

3. Norway 8.09

4. Sweden 8.02

5. Denmark 8.01
…..
78. Ukraine 4.98

79. Kenya 4.91

80. Nigeria 4.74

Via wikipedia.org

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The distribution of wealth in the United States

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