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  2. Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Number in Poverty and Poverty Rate: 1959 to 2017. The US. In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. Based on poverty measures used by the Census Bureau (which exclude non-cash factors such as food stamps or medical care or public housing), America had 37 million people in poverty in 2023; this is 11 percent of population. [1]

  3. Sun - Wikipedia

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    Fusing four free protons (hydrogen nuclei) into a single alpha particle (helium nucleus) releases around 0.7% of the fused mass as energy, [68] so the Sun releases energy at the mass–energy conversion rate of 4.26 billion kg/s (which requires 600 billion kg of hydrogen [69]), for 384.6 yottawatts (3.846 × 10 26 W), [5] or 9.192 × 10 10 ...

  4. List of countries by GDP sector composition - Wikipedia

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    Toggle the table of contents. ... GDP sector composition, 2017 (in percentage and in millions of dollars) using the Purchasing Power Parity methodology: [3] [4] №

  5. Solar panel - Wikipedia

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    The module is then crushed in a mill and the different fractions are separated – glass, plastics and metals. [82] It is possible to recover more than 80% of the incoming weight. [ 83 ] This process can be performed by flat glass recyclers, since the shape and composition of a PV module is similar to flat glass used in the building and ...

  6. Demographics of sexual orientation - Wikipedia

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    Among men, around 89% identified as heterosexual, 5.5% identified as gay, and 2.5% as bisexual. Straight women constituted around 93% of all women, lesbians were 1.4%, and bisexual women 2.3 percent. A little over two percent of each sex identified as "Other", and a little over 1% did not want to indicate a sexual orientation.

  7. Economics - Wikipedia

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    The earlier term for the discipline was "political economy", but since the late 19th century, it has commonly been called "economics". [22] The term is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia) which is a term for the "way (nomos) to run a household (oikos)", or in other words the know-how of an οἰκονομικός (oikonomikos), or "household or homestead manager".

  8. Plug-in electric vehicle - Wikipedia

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    The following table presents global sales of the top selling highway-capable electric cars and light utility vehicles produced since the introduction of the first modern production all-electric car, the Tesla Roadster, in 2008 and December 2021. The table includes all-electric passenger cars and utility vans with cumulative sales of about or ...

  9. Genome - Wikipedia

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    It has been reported that LTRs consist of the largest fraction in most plant genome and might account for the huge variation in genome size. [ 41 ] Non-long terminal repeats (Non-LTRs) are classified as long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs), short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs), and Penelope-like elements (PLEs).