#Shreya Chattopadhyay, "By the Numbers," The Nation, [Date not captured].
1 - Number of major cities that slashed their police budgets by more than 15 percent for the year 2021 (Austin, Texas).
$150m - Amount cut by the Austin City Council from the police department's budget (about one-third).
26% - Share of Austin's city budget that will still be spent on the police in 2021.
$6.7m - Amount diverted from the police budget in January to purchase a hotel that will be converted into homes for the unhoused.
60 - Number of units of permanent housing that the converted hotel will maintain.
52% - Share of the 50 largest cities that increased their police budget for 2021.
50% - Amount the Seattle City Council vowed to cut from the police budget -- before reducing it by only 11 percent.
#Vera Bergengruen and W.J. Hennigan, "The Biden Administration has vowed to defeat far-right extremism," TIME, March 15/March 22, 2021.
"Spurred by the Capitol siege on Jan. 6, Biden has asked senior advisers to do something no previous Administration has attempted: refocus the network of U.S. security agencies to help combat domestic extremism."
"For three decades, the U.S. has suffered escalating violence at the hands of far-right extremists, from Oklahoma City to Charlottesville to El Paso. Since 9/11, right-wing terrorists have been responsible for almost three times as many attacks on American soil as Islamist terrorists, including all but one of the 17 domestic-terror attacks launched in 2019."
"By January, nearly 4 in 10 Republicans said violence may be necessary 'if elected leaders will not protect America,' according to a survey by the conservative American Enterprise Institute."
" 'The problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing,' FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on March 2. He noted that the FBI is currently working on about 2,000 domestic terrorism cases, twice as many as it was in September."
"Only 14% of nearly 15,600 state and local police agencies involved in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program even report hate crimes." In 2019, "the FBI said 80% of its counter-terrorism agents in the field were assigned to international terrorism cases, while just 20% worked on domestic ones."
#Janell Ross, "The vaccine gap," TIME, March 15/March 22, 2021.
"In the 23 states that try to track the race or ethnicity of those vaccinated, most reported white people were getting vaccinated at disproportionately high rates, according to a Feb. 1 analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation."
"Non-Hispanic white residents [in Dallas County] made up 28% of the population but were nearly 63% of those registered to receive vaccines as of Jan. 24, about three weeks after online-only registration had opened to people ages 65 and up."
[Again in Dallas County] "The system was tilted in favor of wealthier white people by prioritizing the 75-and-older crowd initially for vaccines." "An analysis produced by PCCI [the Dallas-based Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation] found that in the weeks when vaccine registrations were limited to those 75 and older, 71% of the people registered in that age range were white. About 8% were Black and 11% were Latino."
#"Rentier vs. Renters," The Nation, 3 . 8 - 15 . 2021.
"From March to December 2020, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, saw his wealth nearly quadruple [from $36.3 billion to $142 billion]. He "could pay off all rental debt in the United States and barely see an impact on his net worth. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia estimated that by December 2020, 1.34 million households owed $7.2 billion in rent, an average of around $5,400 each."
ADDENDUMS: [Found in Paul Rauber, "Up to Speed: Two Months, One Page," Sierra, March/April 2021].
*"Amazon used enough plastic bubble wrap in 2019 to encircle the globe 500 times."
*"US pot growers use more electricity than electric-vehicle drivers."
*"A deal is reached to remove four large dams on the Klamath River on the Oregon-California border. It will be the largest dam-removal project in US history, and will reopen 400 miles of prime salmon habitat."
*"A hitherto unknown population of blue whales in the Indian Ocean are identified by their unique song."
*"The mass of human-made things now exceeds that of all living things on Earth,"
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