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In 1914, during the period of Japanese colonial rule, Jeongui prefecture and Daejeong prefecture were merged into Jeju-gun (gun meaning an administrative district bigger than a prefecture), and the two centers of Seogwipo became Jeongui-myeon and Daejeong. In 1915 the names were changed a second time, to U township and Jwa township.
Obama won all of the 2004 swing states (states that either Kerry or Bush won by less than 5%) by a margin of 8.5 percent or more except for Ohio, which he carried by 4.5 percent. Obama also defied political bellwethers, becoming the first person to win the presidency while losing Missouri since 1956 and while losing Kentucky and Tennessee since ...
[309] [note 1] [310] In 2020, 58 percent of U.S. voters lived in landslide counties, [311] a decline from 61 percent in 2016. [312] Trump became the 11th incumbent in the country's history, and the first since 1992, to lose a bid for a second term. Biden's 51.3% of the popular vote was the highest for a challenger to an incumbent president ...
According to the study "a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage reduces the nonelderly poverty rate by about 5 percent." [126] [127] Similarly, a Morgan Study concluded that a national $15 minimum wage would lift tens of millions of Americans, potentially 32 million Americans, out of poverty, and would also improve racial wage gaps. [91]
Under British rule, modern Pakistan was primarily divided into the Sind Division, Punjab Province, and the Baluchistan Agency. The region also included various princely states, with the largest being Bahawalpur. [84] [85] The major armed struggle against the British in the region was the rebellion known as the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857. [86]
Mexico is established as an upper-middle-income country. After the slowdown of 2001 the country recovered and grew 4.2, 3.0 and 4.8 percent in 2004, 2005 and 2006, [170] even though it is considered to be well below Mexico's potential growth. [171] By 2050, Mexico could potentially become the world's fifth or seventh-largest economy. [172] [173]
Percent 0–14 904 352 866 778 1 771 130 40.07 15–64 1 286 172 1 234 801 2 520 973 ... 30.7 2.7 27.9 2013 4,420,549 127,454 11,188 116,266 28.8 2.5 26.3 2014
The poverty rate increased from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 12.3 percent in 2006 after peaking at 12.7 percent in 2004. [114] By October 2008, due to increases in spending, [ 115 ] : 273 the national debt had risen to $11.3 trillion, [ 116 ] more than doubling it since 2000.