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A small number of U.S. states rely entirely on sales taxes for state revenue, as those states do not levy a state income tax. Such states tend to have a moderate to a large amount of tourism or inter-state travel that occurs within their borders, allowing the state to benefit from taxes from people the state would otherwise not tax.
Throughout most of 2019, Florida's unemployment rate hovered below 5%. [98] During the COVID-19 lockdown in early to mid-2020, Florida, and most other states, saw unemployment rates near 15%. [ 98 ] [ 99 ] [ 100 ] DeSantis partially blamed his gubernatorial predecessor, Rick Scott , for leaving behind a dejected unemployment system that created ...
In 2018, the Chicago Department of Health, estimated 7.5% of the adult population, approximately 146,000 Chicagoans, were LGBTQ. [183] In 2015, roughly 4% of the population identified as LGBT. [ 184 ] [ 185 ] Since the 2013 legalization of same-sex marriage in Illinois , over 10,000 same-sex couples have wed in Cook County , a majority of them ...
Between Nixon's accession to office and his resignation in August 1974, unemployment rates had risen from 3.5% to 5.6%, and the rate of inflation had grown from 4.7% to 8.7%. [63] Observers coined a new term for the undesirable combination of unemployment and inflation: " stagflation ", a phenomenon that would worsen after Nixon left office.