Mapped: Unemployment Rate By State in 2025

See the unemployment rate by state in 2025, from South Dakota’s low 1.8% to Washington D.C.’s high rate of 5.9%.

By Niccolo Conte Graphics/Design: Sabrina Lam

The U.S. labor market remains resilient in 2025, but unemployment figures vary widely by state.

While the national unemployment rate stood at 4.1% in June, some regions are experiencing far higher (or far lower) joblessness…

Mapped: U.S. Poverty Rates by State

Explore U.S. poverty rates to see which states struggle most and how regional divides shape the national picture.

By Pallavi Rao Graphics/Design: Anna Diederichs

America’s economic landscape looks very different depending on where you live.

This map of U.S. poverty rates by state makes that disparity clearer.

Each shade represents the share of residents living below the poverty line, inviting quick comparisons across the country.

The data for this visualization comes from the U.S. Census Bureau…

The Real Reason Your Power Bill Doubled (It’s Not Inflation)

Electricity bills are skyrocketing and water reserves are dwindling, yet Big Tech giants like OpenAI

by Vanessa Wingardh

Electricity bills are skyrocketing and water reserves are dwindling, yet Big Tech giants like OpenAI, Meta (aka Laidley LLC), and Amazon are thriving. They’ve secured billions in tax breaks while you foot the bill through higher rates and taxes to power their AI servers. Property tax has increased an average of 30% nationwide between 2019 – 2024. ChatGPT’s true cost goes far beyond its $20 monthly subscription: consumers are shouldering $9.3 billion in increased electricity costs. Multi-trillion dollar companies are receiving billions in tax breaks, consuming billions of gallons of water to cool servers, and signing secret NDAs with city officials…

Newsom Prepares to Violate State Constitution to Save ‘Democracy’ In Redistricting Battle

Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom is moving ahead with a controversial plan to redraw his state’s congressional maps by overriding the state’s non-partisan redi...

By AG Staff

Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom is moving ahead with a controversial plan to redraw his state’s congressional maps by overriding the state’s non-partisan redistricting commission to counter redistricting moves by Republican lawmakers in Texas…

The War on Truth: Why Are Palestinian Journalists Being Systematically Erased?

The killing of seven Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza on August 10 has prompted verbal condemnations, yet has inspired little to no substantive action. T...

by Ramzy Baroud, Antiwar.com

The killing of seven Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza on August 10 has prompted verbal condemnations, yet has inspired little to no substantive action. This has become the predictable and horrifying trajectory of the international community’s response to the ongoing Israeli genocide.

By eliminating Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqeh, Israel has made a sinister statement that the genocide will spare no one. According to the monitoring website Shireen.ps, Israel has killed nearly 270 journalists since October 2023…

Business Flees California due to Overregulation

California has been repelling capital through overregulation. The energy sector high-tailed out of the state in recent years under Governor Gavin Newsom’s net-zero policies

by Martin Armstrong

California has been repelling capital through overregulation. The energy sector high-tailed out of the state in recent years under Governor Gavin Newsom’s net-zero policies. Now, even retailers feel forced to evacuate as California becomes increasingly anti-business…

Now Comes the California Fire Sale: China-Based Company Is Buying Up Land Incinerated by Firestorms

If foreign corporations want to buy burned-out properties, can those sales be stopped? Should they be stopped?

by Tyler Durden

If foreign corporations want to buy burned-out properties, can those sales be stopped? Should they be stopped?

When the feared firestorm hit Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and Altadena in Southern California last January, the Los Angeles mayor was MIA, the "public safety" guy in charge—the vice mayor—was on home confinement for making an anti-Israel bomb threat on city hall, fire fighters were not pre-deployed, there was no water in the reservoir, and fire hydrants went dry in the Palisades…

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