Topics View All
Geography View All
Content Type View All
Trending:
Research Activities
General Information
« Previous
Fred Dews | October 3, 2013 5:17pm
Share
In this edition of Brookings Data Now: about half of Americans already have private health insurance; Debt-to-GDP ratio growing; lack of social mobility; and Taiwan's trade value.
About half of all Americans are already insured, and don't necessarily have to purchase health insurance through the new exchanges set up under the Affordable Care act.
The historical average is about 36 percent.
Six percent of bottom-income quintile children make it into the top quintile. For top quintile children, 39 percent stay in the top fifth, and 9 percent end up in the bottom.
$570 billion
Taiwan's trade is 74 percent of its GDP. It is the world's 19th largest trader, but only the 28th largest economy in the world.
Fred Dews
Managing Editor of the Brookings Website
Previous
What Percentage of U.S. Population Is Foreign Born?
A blog about research that matters.
View all blogs ›
You have not selected any newsletters.
Brookings Scholars on Government Shutdown Crisis
VIDEO: Al Gore Calls Government Shutdown Threat Political Terrorism
Al Gore on IPCC Climate Change Report: Atmosphere Being Treated Like Open Sewer
What to Read on Iran this Week: Phone Diplomacy and Israel's Take on Iran
Mehrun Etebari|October 5, 2013 2:25pm
Iran Press Report: Reactions to Rouhani's Phone Call with Obama
Mehrun Etebari|October 4, 2013 6:49pm
The Government Shutdown with Elaine Kamarck from Reddit's AskMeAnything
Elaine Kamarck|October 4, 2013 4:30pm
View all posts ›
Get Updates