You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. $12.5 billion The U.S. trade surplus with Canada in 2016 — as in, we export $320.1 billion worth of goods and services up north and they send $307.6 billion worth of goods and services down south, according to the Office of […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 44 cents While 90 percent of retail sales happen in physical stores, that figure is decreasing, and the company that stands to gain the most is Amazon. A staggering 44 cents out of every dollar spent online is spent at Amazon. […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 5 turnovers thus far On Tuesday, President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and announced he would appoint Mike Pompeo, the head of the CIA, to the position. So far that makes three replacements and two departures from the Trump […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 62 co-sponsors A piece of legislation in the U.S. Senate that would improve data reporting to the national gun background check database has 62 co-sponsors but is still being held up by Republicans. It’s one of the only bills addressing gun […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 70 percent A new study of how news spreads on the Internet found that false claims were far more likely to spread far and wide than true ones. Lies were 70 percent more likely than the truth to get shared on […]