A good book to have around the apartment or house, the World Almanac provides a quality reference material. Highly organized and well formatted, with very clear sections, I found this useful for browsing and specific searches on topics and facts. In the beginning of this title there is some good overview of the 2010s in the US, economic, social, and election events. There is also a chart about drug use trends, and just with this one entry I already have some new understanding of national events (p. 6, 7). Looking further, I found good summaries of US Presidents (p. 489) and facts, summaries, and residents of the 50 States (ex. p. 566-567). Later, I found the top nations in the world by population (p. 730). I'd estimate that, like me, a majority of US college students can't name the top ten countries in the world by population in order (here's an acronym: CIUIBP-NBRJ). Finally, the book has a lot of good illustrations, mostly black and white, with some good quality color charts and photos in the middle. For those who aren't buying this one, most public libraries will have a copy, either the hardcover or paperback version. Hope people enjoy and benefit from a strong culture of learning in America, and support bookstores and libraries (partly because of the public access, partly because learning by print books is generally superior to learning on screens). Our competitors like China (60 Minutes, 1/13/19) are very much in tune with this idea. Federal and State budget debates need to revisit the idea of establishing categories of funding (akin to Kant's Categorical Imperative), with bright lines and percentages that guide the funding decisions, and not just dollar amounts (for example, dedicating two percent (2%) of the Federal budget to the DOE would provide good results, and State legislature funding at ten percent (10%) for state colleges would similarly provide affordable quality higher education, and help these programs avoid being squeezed by entitlement spending other than Social Security ("EOTSS"), primarily Medicare and Medicaid).
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