Military Matters
37 - Military actions authorized by Congress since 2001.

14 - Countries attacked by the US since 2001.

1942 - Last year that Congress formally declared war.

11 - Number of formally declared wars fought by the US since  its founding in 1776.

138 - Countries that the US is currently involved in militarily. (Source: Mariam Elba, "DC By the Numbers," The Nation, May 8/15, 2017).

New Labor
IM - People who marched in 2006's A Day Without Immigrants.

680 - People swept up in ICE raids the week before 2017's A Day Without Immigrants.

100+ - People fired the day after the march for participating.

1,488 - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) statuses revoked under Trump and Obama combined as of April 19. (Source: Skanda Kadirgamar, "DC By the Numbers, The Nation, May 12/19, 2017).

GOP Lies About the AHCA
1. It protects people with preexisting conditions. Fact: States may waive coverage and high-risk pool costs may be too high.

2. It protects older Americans from increased premium costs. Fact: A 5 to 1 ratio in premium cost exceeds the 3 to 1 ratio found in the ACA.

3. It charges everyone the same for insurance. Fact: See 1. and 2.

4. It allows for every person to have access to kind of coverage that they want. Fact: I could have access to a $10 million home but wouldn't have anywhere near enough money to buy it. Also, the tax credits are, in many cases, insufficient  to cover insurance costs.

5. Health and housing secretary Tom Price says that the elimination of $880 billion in Medicaid spending over ten years would allow the states to experiment more. Fact: This should stand as one of the most absurd statements made in U.S. political history. Because states and insured individuals couldn't pick up this mass money loss,  the only alternative is to drop millions of people off the rolls.

ADDENDUM:
*A prisoner in Ohio, Ricky Jackson, spent 39 years on Death Row before a key witness admitted to lying in the testimony that led to his conviction.

*Wind industry jobs increased from about 50,000 to sightly over 100,000 from 2008 and 2016. Coal mining jobs dropped from about 260,000 in 1984 to about 50,000 in 2016. (Sources: American Wind Energy Association, US Department of Commerce, and Bureau of Labor Statistics).