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If a worker covered by Social Security dies, a surviving spouse can receive survivors' benefits if a 9-month duration of marriage is met. If a widow(er) waits until Full Retirement Age, they are eligible for 100 percent of their deceased spouse's PIA. [65] If the death of the worker was accidental, the duration of marriage test may be waived. [66]
After leaving office in 2021, Trump returned to power upon his victory in the 2024 presidential election. [7] Trump's primary goal for the first 100 days of his second presidency was to reverse many of the policies of Joe Biden—who served as president in between Trump's two terms—and to resume where he left off after his first term.
[7] [8] Since China's transition to a socialist market economy through controlled privatisation and deregulation, [9] [10] the country has seen its ranking increase from ninth in 1978, to second in 2010; China's economic growth accelerated during this period and its share of global nominal GDP surged from 2% in 1980 to 18% in 2021.
These are cheaper but very inefficient, emitting only a small fraction of a percent of their power as UV. Mercury-vapor black lights in ratings up to 1 kW with UV-emitting phosphor and an envelope of Wood's glass are used for theatrical and concert displays. [citation needed]
Israel has raised its threshold from 1 percent (before 1992) to 1.5 percent (1992-2004), to 2 percent (in 2006, and to 3.25 percent in 2014. Because that country uses at-large districting, the natural threshold would be less than 1 percent, much lower than the electoral threshold.
The percentage of the world gross product devoted to military spending has been generally decreasing since World War II. Tallies from the 1960s report military spending rates above 6% of world GDP and in a range from 3.8% to 4.5% in the 1970s and 1980s. [ 42 ]
Households in the top 1.5 percent of income distribution captured about 20 percent of income. Another 20 percent went to about 10 percent of the population who can be characterized as a non-elite middle. The remaining "vast majority" produced more than half of the total income, but lived near subsistence. [71]