The following is a non-exhaustive scorecard for where the United States is at on January 20, 2025.
🇺🇸 Average price per gallon of gasoline: $3.12/gal.
🇺🇸 Dow Jones Industrial Average: 43,857 points as of 11:13 AM EDT on Monday.
🇺🇸 Homicide rate: 7.5 deaths per 100,000 in 2022, the most recent year available.
🇺🇸 Violent crime rate: 363.8 per 100,000 in 2023, the most recent year available.
🇺🇸 Average electric bill: $144.84/month.
🇺🇸 Unemployment rate: 4.1 percent in December 2024.
🇺🇸 Average price of eggs: $4.15/dozen in December 2024.
🇺🇸 Poverty rate: 12.9 percent in 2023, the most recent year available.
🇺🇸 Inflation: 2.9 percent increase in CPI in December 2024.
🇺🇸 Average price of a McDonald’s Big Mac: $5.69 circa July 2024.
🇺🇸 Median household income: $80,610 in 2023, the most recent year available.
🇺🇸 Average 30-year fixed rate mortgage: 7.04 percent.
🇺🇸 US oil production: 4.611 billion barrels in 2024 (estimated).
🇺🇸 GDP: 3.1 increase in Q3 2024.
This list can and should be considerably longer, but here’s where we’re at right now, and the numbers that convicted felon President Trump now owns, for better or worse. Good luck to him and his fanboys on how long they can stretch out blaming Biden and Democrats.