Interesting American facts from an American

1.- In more than half of all states in the United States of America, the highest paid public employee in the state is a football coach.
 
2.- It costs the U. S. Government 1.8 cents to mint a penny and 90.4 cents to mint a nickel.
 
3.- Almost half of all Americans (47%) do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings.
 
4.- Apple has more money than the U. S. Treasury.
 
5.- The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode Island. But Rhode Island has a significantly larger population than Alaska does.
 
6.- Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U. S. states put together.
 
7.- The city of Juneau, Alaska is about 2,000 square miles in size.  It is actually larger than the entire state of Delaware.
 
8.- When LBJ's "War on Poverty" began,fewer  than 10% of all U. S. children were growing up in single parent households. Today, that number has skyrocketed to 44%.
 
9.- In 1950, fewer than 5% of all babies in America were born to unmarried parents. Today that number is over 40%.
 
10.- The poverty rate for households that are led by a married couple is 6.8%.  For households that are led by a female single parent, the poverty rate is 37.1%.
 
11.- In 2013, women earned 60% of all bachelor's degrees that were awarded in the United States.
 
12.- According to the CDC, 34.6% of all men in the U. S. are obese.
 
13.- The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 pounds of food each year; meanwhile, approximately 20% of the garbage that goes into our landfills is food.
 
14.- According to the most recent survey, 81% of Russians now have a negative view of the United States. That is much higher than at the end of the Cold War era. (and this was published before the children were taken away from their mothers at the US/Mexican border)!
 
15.- Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.
 
16.- The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California; but no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.
 
17.- A recent survey discovered that"a steady job" is the number one thing that American women are looking for in a husband; and the same survey indicated that 75% of women would have a serious problem dating an unemployed man.
 
18.- According to a recent study conducted by economist Carl Benedict Frey and engineer Michael Osborne, 47% of the jobs in the United States could soon be lost to computers, robots, and other forms of technology.
 
19.- The only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially is in Hawaii.
 
20.- The original name of the city of Atlanta was"Terminus."
 
21.- The state with the most millionaires per capita is Maryland.
 
22.- One recent survey showed that a survey of 50-year-old men in the US found that only 12% of them considered themselves"very happy."
 
23.- The United States has 845 motor vehicles for every 1,000 people.
 
24.- 48% of all Americans do not have any emergency supplies in their homes whatsoever.
 
25.- There are three towns in the United States that have the name"Santa Claus."
 
26.- There is actually a town in Michigan called"Hell."
 
27.- If you have no debt and have 10 dollars in your wallet, then you are wealthier than 25% of all Americans.
 
28.- By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television.
 
Once upon a time we were the most loved and most respected nation on the entire planet, but those days are gone. We have wrecked our economy,  lost our values, and  fumbled away our future. But if you look closely enough, you can see many of the things that once made this country a shining beacon to the rest of the world.
 
This article includes some weird facts, some fun facts, but some very troubling facts. If we are ever going to change course as a nation, we need to come to grips with just how far we have fallen.