Fun Facts

The International Trade Union Confederation estimates that 4,000 workers will die in Qatar by the time 2022 arrives.
http://screamer.deadspin.com/chart-the-qatar-world-cup-death-toll-is-stunning-1707286095

America's wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion. In approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent.
http://www.alternet.org/economy/numbers-are-staggering-us-world-leader-child-poverty

The top 0.01 percent of Americans -- fewer than 14,000 households -- received 5.6 percent of adjusted gross income in 2012...the top 0.001 percent...had its best year since 2007.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-27/top-0-01-of-u-s-households-gained-as-income-concentration-rose

There are now more American workers on disability (8.9 million) than are working on assembly lines (8.6 million).
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/opinion/whos-speaking-up-for-the-american-worker.html

[Les Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corp] in one day...makes more than double the annual median household income in the United States.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/05/28/on_the_briefcase_poor_americans_have_to_prove_themselves.html

You are much more likely to be struck dead by lightning, choke on a chicken bone or drown in the bathtub than be killed by a terrorist. Any number of well-known diseases — cancer, diabetes, the flu — take the lives of far, far more people. Yet, by one estimate, the United States spends $500 million per victim of terrorism, and a piddling $10,000 per cancer death.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/opinion/what-to-be-afraid-of.html?rref=opinion&_r=0

Nearly three out of 10 Americans have shown evidence of a serious alcohol-related problem at some point in their lives.
http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/the-enormous-scope-of-our-national-drinking-problem

The average American woman now weighs as much as the average 1960s man
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/12/look-at-how-much-weight-weve-gained-since-the-1960s/?tid=pm_business_pop_b

The least fit child from a class of 30 in 1998 would be one of the five fittest children in a class of the same age today in the U.K.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/18/england-pupils-the-least-fit-they-have-ever-been

According to the 2015 Global Peace Index, the number of refugees and internally displaced people has reached its highest point since World War II.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/refugees-global-peace-index/396122/

Five of the top ten books on Amazon last month were coloring books for grown-ups.
https://twitter.com/CliveDavisUK/status/613976674993053696