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Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-thursday-aug-22-2019/

4-0 vote

By a unanimous 4-0 vote, the commissioners of rural Lincoln County, Nevada, declared a state of emergency.

The looming threat? A joke Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” to which more than 2 million people have RSVPed, some of whom might actually show up in the desert, hoping to raid the military site in the hopes of finding extraterrestrial life.

“We have no pickin’ idea what we’re going to face — if anything,” said one commissioner. [USA Today]


$1 trillion

Yeah, where are your teabaggers now?

The U.S. federal deficit is forecasted to reach $1 trillion for the 2020 fiscal year, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office. That debt has been increasing following a $1.5 trillion tax cut and a budget deal that increases government spending by hundreds of billions of dollars. “The nation’s fiscal outlook is challenging,” the director of the CBO said. [CNN]