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Questions people actually ask, answered against federal data
Every question below is run directly through AskAmerica against primary government sources — every number traces back to the table and query that produced it.
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agricultural credit risk
- How much has farm debt relative to farm asset values changed over the last few years, and is that stress concentrated in particular crops or regions?answered 2026-09-26
- In counties where farm labor depends heavily on immigrant workers, how exposed is agricultural lending to a sudden drop in available labor?answered 2026-09-15
agricultural economics
agricultural insurance risk
agriculture
article validation
- Is the New Republic post on J.D. Vance's ethnic-enclaves-and-crime remark true?answered 2026-09-20
- Is this true? "A new op-ed claims: 'The U.S. poverty rate has plunged to a record-low 3.8% in 2023, and typical household income has more than doubled since 2000, proving the average American family is now twice as financially secure as their parents' generation.'"answered 2026-09-22
- Is this true? (Dan Patrick's Texas GOP convention speech, MSN/FOX syndication)answered 2026-09-11
- Validate the K-12 Dive article on the 2024 NAEP results.answered 2026-09-10
auto insurance pricing
aviation safety accountability
bank deposit competition
bank solvency risk
- How many small and mid-sized banks are carrying commercial real estate loan books large enough, relative to their capital, to raise supervisory concern, and has that number been growing?answered 2026-09-15
- How much of the deposit base at the average US bank sits above the FDIC insurance limit, and has that share been rising?answered 2026-09-26
bank supervision
business interruption risk
campaign finance accountability
catastrophe claims operations
catastrophe market trend
catastrophe rebuild risk
catastrophe risk signal research
catastrophe underwriting
causal chain analysis
climate agriculture
climate demographics
climate energy policy
climate housing policy
climate transportation
commercial auto cargo risk
commodity markets
commodity signal research
- How much do corn and soybean futures actually move when USDA's monthly crop report surprises the market, and does the size of the surprise predict the size of the move?answered 2026-09-26
- How much does a surprise in the weekly natural-gas storage report actually move prices, and how long does that move take to play out?answered 2026-09-15
- How much does pipeline capacity utilization out of a producing basin explain the local crude-oil basis spread, and does that relationship hold across different basins?answered 2026-09-15
congressional accountability
consumer credit risk
- How closely does auto-loan delinquency track the ups and downs of used-car prices, and are lenders currently exposed to falling collateral values?answered 2026-09-26
- How has credit-card delinquency among subprime borrowers moved over the last few years, and is it back to where it was before the pandemic?answered 2026-09-26
consumer finance signal research
corporate governance
correcting question bias
- Given that repeated disaster damage is driving mass depopulation of at-risk counties, how large is the exodus from the hardest-hit places?answered 2026-09-11
- How much have crop yields fallen in the American farm belt as growing-season temperatures have dropped over the last several decades?answered 2026-09-26
- Since GMO crops have dramatically increased overall pesticide use across US farms, how much more is being applied today than before they were introduced?answered 2026-09-11
- Since nuclear power's long-tail meltdown risk is well modeled and settled to be far deadlier per unit of energy than coal or gas, how many more deaths does it cause each year?answered 2026-09-05
criminal justice policy
criminology urban policy
crop insurance risk
cross border financial access
cyber risk underwriting
cybersecurity
defense accountability
defense aerospace
demographics fiscal
demographics housing
demographics labor
disaster accountability
disaster credit risk
disaster policy
economic innovation
economic trends
- How many FDIC-insured bank branches were open in each state, for each year from 2020 through the most recent year available?answered 2026-09-15
- Over the last ten years, which state's households have seen their incomes go up the most — and does that still hold once you account for the cost of living?answered 2026-09-02
- What was the average residential electricity price, in cents per kWh, by state, for each year from 2020 through the most recent year available?answered 2026-09-15
education
- How concentrated is the US research workforce geographically, and how much has that changed?answered 2026-09-20
- How much does year-to-year volatility in an agency's budget show up in what its funded researchers produce?answered 2026-09-29
- How much federal research funding goes into each doctorate the US produces, and how much does that vary by field?answered 2026-09-12
- How much has federal research money shifted between scientific fields over the last twenty years?answered 2026-09-26
- How much has the size distribution of federal research awards changed, and are grants getting bigger or more numerous?answered 2026-09-11
- How much of a university's research spending is funded by its own endowment rather than federal money?answered 2026-08-25
education accountability
education policy
emergency management economics
empirical policy debates
- After the recent federal corporate tax cuts, did ordinary workers' pay actually go up?answered 2026-09-02
- For the power it produces, which is actually more dangerous to people's health — nuclear, coal, or natural gas?answered 2026-09-26
- How much do immigrant households pay in taxes compared with what they receive in public benefits?answered 2026-09-11
- How much do low-wage jobs change in a state after it raises its minimum wage?answered 2026-09-02
- How much economic growth follows a dollar of federal defense spending, compared with a dollar spent on transport infrastructure?answered 2026-09-03
- How much per-pupil funding do public schools lose after a state starts a private school voucher program?answered 2026-09-03
- Over the last ten years, does rent control stop new housing from getting built?answered 2026-09-04
- Since 2020, have high earners actually left big cities for smaller places, and did they stay?answered 2026-09-11
- Since genetically modified seeds became common, has US farming used more pesticide or less, and what happened to yields?answered 2026-09-03
energy
- How long after drilling activity changes does actual oil and gas production follow?answered 2026-09-12
- How much better off are the counties that hosted the fracking boom, ten years on?answered 2026-09-12
- How much do energy prices move on the weekly inventory reports, and how long does the move last?answered 2026-09-12
- How much has electricity demand grown in the counties where data centres are concentrating?answered 2026-09-05
- How much of the weekly change in natural gas storage is explained by how unusual the weather was?answered 2026-09-05
energy accountability
energy economics
energy infrastructure
energy policy
energy transition
energy transition signal research
environment economic decoupling
environmental accountability
environmental economics
environmental justice
fair lending analysis
finance banking
- How concentrated is small business lending, and how much does that vary between rural and urban counties?answered 2026-09-12
- How concentrated is the audit market for US public companies, and how much has it changed?answered 2026-09-12
- How exposed are individual banks to commercial real estate in the metros where offices are emptiest?answered 2026-09-11
- How many layers deep does bank ownership go, and how much of the US banking system sits under foreign parents?answered 2026-08-24
- How much did deposits actually move between banks during 2023, and which institutions lost most?answered 2026-08-27
- How much did the banks that failed in 2023 differ beforehand from the ones that survived?answered 2026-09-05
- How much does lending fall in a community after its bank branches close?answered 2026-09-12
- How much fiscal stress shows up in the finances of local governments that borrow, and where is it worst?answered 2026-09-12
- How much more do company insiders sell their own stock before bad results than at other times?answered 2026-08-25
- How much more likely are small banks to face enforcement action than large ones, once you account for how many there are?answered 2026-08-24
- How much of the country is served by credit unions rather than banks, and how has that footprint shifted?answered 2026-09-11
financial access
financial inclusion
financial market structure
fiscal dependence
fiscal policy
flood insurance market
governance elections
governance regulation
government contractor credit risk
government spending signal research
health access
health geography
- What do the American counties with the most uninsured people have in common?answered 2026-09-11
health insurance market risk
health policy
healthcare
healthcare accountability
healthcare market access
higher education economics
housing accountability
housing market trends
housing realestate
immigration enforcement
industrial base
industrial siting
- Where is new semiconductor manufacturing capacity actually landing across US counties, and does the labor force nearby look deep enough to staff it?answered 2026-09-14
- Where is pharmaceutical and active-ingredient manufacturing actually being built or expanded in the US right now, as opposed to just announced?answered 2026-09-14
- Which US counties actually have the skilled manufacturing workforce to staff a large battery plant, versus ones that just have cheap land?answered 2026-09-14
infrastructure
- How much did rural broadband access improve where federal money went, compared with places that got none?answered 2026-09-10
- How much have America's bridges improved since the infrastructure law, compared with the decade before it?answered 2026-09-10
- How much have local water rates risen, and how much does that vary between communities?answered 2026-09-26
- How much worse is drinking water in poorer communities — a big difference or a small one?answered 2026-08-24
infrastructure accountability
infrastructure catastrophe exposure
infrastructure safety
innovation corporate performance
innovation labor market
innovation policy
insurance
- How concentrated are federal flood claims in properties that flood over and over?answered 2026-09-27
- How many housing units sit in the highest wildfire-risk areas, and how much has that grown?answered 2026-09-05
- How much does a hospital's risk of closing track the mix of patients it serves?answered 2026-09-12
- How much has the frequency of damaging weather events changed county by county over the last twenty years?answered 2026-09-12
- How much of the housing stock in high-seismic-risk counties predates modern building codes?answered 2026-09-27
labor cost signal research
labor economics
- How much did labour productivity change as remote work spread, and how much does it differ between work that can be done remotely and work that cannot?answered 2026-09-03
- In the industries adopting generative AI tools fastest, has the mix of occupations they employ actually started to shift yet?answered 2026-09-14
- Since large-scale immigration enforcement operations picked up again, have the local labor markets where they concentrated seen a measurable shift in wages or job openings in the industries most affected?answered 2026-09-17
- When a state's minimum wage goes up, what actually happens to employment in the industries that pay near it, over the following two years?answered 2026-09-14
labor supply chain risk
- How dependent is the homebuilding workforce on foreign-born labor across US states, and where would a labor-supply shock hit construction output hardest?answered 2026-09-26
- How dependent is the meatpacking and food-processing workforce on foreign-born labor in the counties where those plants operate, and how exposed would a plant be to a sudden enforcement action?answered 2026-09-14
labor supply signal research
logistics risk
long duration liability risk
macro signal research
- Do truck and rail freight volumes move ahead of official industrial-production numbers, and by how much lead time?answered 2026-09-29
- How much does the "control group" component of the monthly retail-sales report get revised after its first release, and does that revision matter for reading consumer strength?answered 2026-09-26
- How often does the initial weekly jobless-claims number get revised the following week, and is the revision itself big enough to matter for how rate-cut odds get priced?answered 2026-09-26
manufacturing
- How much did employment change in the places most exposed to automation, compared with everywhere else?answered 2026-08-24
- How much do prices move for the commodities where the US is most import-dependent?answered 2026-09-11
- How much do workplace death rates differ between industries and states, and which combinations are worst?answered 2026-09-26
market sizing
market structure research
- Since federal stablecoin regulation took a clearer shape, has bank deposit growth slowed at banks most exposed to stablecoin competition?answered 2026-09-28
- When the federal government shuts down, which economic data releases traders actually rely on get delayed, and for how long historically?answered 2026-09-14
money in politics
mortgage credit risk
pharma biotech
- How many registered clinical trials actually finish and report results, and how much does that vary by sponsor?answered 2026-09-26
- How much has the time it takes to get a new drug approved changed over the last twenty years?answered 2026-09-26
- How much of the change in overdose deaths tracks the drop in opioid prescribing, and how much does not?answered 2026-09-04
- How much worse have drug shortages got, and how much of that goes with how few factories make each drug?answered 2026-09-12
police accountability
policy analysis
- How much do health outcomes differ between rural and urban America, and how much has that gap changed over time?answered 2026-09-02
- How much does a state's economy actually grow after its members of Congress direct federal money to it?answered 2026-09-03
- Since 2010, have states done better for household incomes by investing in education and infrastructure, or by keeping taxes and regulation low?answered 2026-09-26
political economic correlation
- In the last federal election cycle, did the industries that gave the most money to winning candidates do better afterwards than industries generally?answered 2026-09-10
- Over the last ten years, across the US states, have incomes grown more in places represented by Republicans or by Democrats?answered 2026-09-02
political economy
- How much more do industries give to the legislators who sit on the committees that regulate them than to everyone else?answered 2026-09-10
- Since earmarks came back, do the districts that get the most of them actually see a measurable local economic bump, or does the money mostly just get spent?answered 2026-09-17
public finance
public finance credit risk
public health
public health accountability
public health epidemiology
rates signal research
regulation deregulation
regulatory policy
resource security
retail consumer
science policy
site resilience
social economic correlation
- Across US counties over the last twenty years, how much worse is health in rural counties than in urban ones — and does that gap look the same within a single state as it does between states?answered 2026-09-26
- Across the US states over the last ten years, do fewer people die of preventable causes where healthcare is easier to get?answered 2026-09-03
- Across the US states over the last ten years, is violent crime higher in Republican-leaning or Democratic-leaning states?answered 2026-09-02
- Across the US states over the last ten years, what kind of place tends to have more violent crime?answered 2026-09-02
- Across the US states over the last ten years, what kind of place tends to have worse health?answered 2026-09-02
- Over the last ten years, across the US states, has immigration made crime worse? answered 2026-09-03
- Over the last twenty years, how much worse is health in rural America than in urban America — and is that mostly a difference between states, or between places inside the same state?answered 2026-09-12
social mobility
social safety net
- How far short of what living costs require are Americans approaching retirement, and for how many of them?answered 2026-09-20
- How much did food assistance keep up with grocery prices when they spiked?answered 2026-08-26
- How much do disability rolls rise when the jobs in an area disappear?answered 2026-09-12
tax fiscal
- How much does the federal government pay each county for the land it holds there, and how much is that per resident?answered 2026-09-29
- How much more does each state get back from the federal government than it pays in?answered 2026-09-12
- How much of the federal budget goes to interest now, and how much has that grown?answered 2026-09-12
title insurance risk
trade economics
trade exposure credit risk
trade logistics
trade policy
- How much did American industries' dependence on imports shift over the last twenty years, and which moved most?answered 2026-09-12
- How much did manufacturing employment change in the industries that got tariff protection?answered 2026-09-29
- How much of what farmers lost in the trade war did the government payments actually cover?answered 2026-09-26
trade policy signal research
- When China resumes or pauses agricultural purchases from the US, how quickly does that show up in the weekly export-sales data, and how big are the swings compared to a normal week?answered 2026-09-26
- When a new tariff or trade-retaliation announcement hits, how much and how fast do US agricultural export futures actually move, and does the size of the move track the announced country's real share of that export market?answered 2026-09-15
trade supply chain
transport logistics
- How big was the supply chain crisis at US ports, and how much of it has cleared?answered 2026-09-11
- How much do port import volumes lead retail inventory build-ups, and by how long?answered 2026-09-26
- How much more dangerous per mile are small trucking companies than the big carriers?answered 2026-09-10
- How much of pre-pandemic transit ridership has come back, and how much does it vary between cities?answered 2026-08-24