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2018 and newer

Artificial Intelligence

Digital life is augmenting human capacities and disrupting eons-old human activities. Code-driven systems have spread to more than half of the world’s inhabitants in ambient information and connectivity, offering previously unimagined opportunities and unprecedented threats. As emerging algorithm-driven artificial intelligence (AI) continues to spread, will people be better off than they are today?

Technology
Global
Citations: 
https://www.pewinternet.org/2018/12/10/artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of…

Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2018

With growing public attention to the problem of mass incarceration, people want to know about women’s experience with incarceration. How many women are held in prisons, jails, and other correctional facilities in the United States? And why are they there? How is their experience different from men’s? While these are important questions, finding those answers requires not only disentangling the country’s decentralized and overlapping criminal justice systems, but also unearthing the frustratingly hard to find and often altogether missing data on gender.

Population Demographics
Correctional
Citations: 
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018women.html

Older Americans' Use of Facebook Up From 2011

The Gallup poll examines Facebook usage with different age groups. Facebook has consistently been most popular with younger adults aged 18 to 29, but the percentage of this group who use it -- currently 72% -- has not changed significantly since Gallup last measured it in 2011. Meanwhile, each older age group has shown significant growth in Facebook use since that time.

Technology
Domestic
Citations: 
https://news.gallup.com/poll/233456/older-americans-facebook-2011.aspx?g_source=…

The world's biggest economies in 2018

The United States has the largest economy in the world at $20.4 trillion, according to data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which shows the US economy increased from around $19.4 trillion last year.
China follows, with $14 trillion, which is an increase of more than $2 trillion in comparison to 2017. Japan is in third place with an economy of $5.1 trillion, up from $4.87 trillion a year previously.

Economy
Global
Citations: 
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/the-worlds-biggest-economies-in-2018/

State Minimum Wages 2020 Highlights

Twenty-one states began 2020 with higher minimum wages. Seven states (Alaska, Florida, Minnesota, Montana, Ohio, South Dakota, and Vermont) automatically increased their rates based on the cost of living, while 14 states (Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Washington) increased their rates due to previously approved legislation or ballot initiatives.

Workforce
Domestic
Citations: 
https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx…

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Green Items
Items that are green are part of the Correctional Perspective. They generally fit into the scope of only applying to the U.S. Correctional Industry or down to an individual facility level.
Grey Items
Items that are grey are part of the Domestic Perspective. They generally fit into the scope of applying to the U.S. national perspective and may encompass societal components that go beyond just the Correctional Industry.
Blue Items
Items that are blue are part of the Global Perspective. They generally fit into the scope of applying to multiple countries around the globe.
White Items
Any all-white items you see are a combination of two or more perspectives and may apply to both.