statistics

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Government statistics, private-sector surveys and even knowing to the penny how much was paid out in refunds can only tell us so much about what people will do with their money.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

As of early April, refunds averaged $3,462, up from $3,116 a year ago, IRS statistics show.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

Although statistics show a decrease in poverty under Milei, mainly due to a sharp drop in inflation, family finances are in crisis, according to Central Bank reports.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

For many years after his son Frances’s death, Franklin dutifully recorded statistics on outbreaks throughout the colonies to demonstrate that smallpox acquired by inoculation was safer than that received in the “natural” way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

So far the exposition’s publicity office had given the press a detailed list of monumental but dreary statistics.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson