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  2. Baltimore - Wikipedia

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    Baltimore (/ ˈbɔːltɪmɔːr / BAWL-tim-or, locally: / ˌbɔːldɪˈmɔːr / BAWL-dim-OR or / ˈbɔːlmər / BAWL-mər[14]), also known as Baltimore City, [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the 30th-most populous U.S. city with a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 569,997 in 2025, while the Baltimore metropolitan area at 2.86 million ...

  3. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Sign for "colored" waiting room at a Greyhound bus terminal in Rome, Georgia, 1943. Throughout the Southern United States there were Jim Crow laws creating de jure legally required segregation. Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States based on racial categorizations. Notably, racial ...

  4. Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Mississippi (/ ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi / ⓘ MISS-iss-IP-ee) [7] is a state in the Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the southwest, and Arkansas to the northwest. Mississippi's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River, or its historical course. [8 ...

  5. Minimum wage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    US map of adult hourly minimum wages by state and District of Columbia (D.C.) [1] The minimum wage by US state and year In the United States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. [2] The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but later found to be ...

  6. Works Progress Administration - Wikipedia

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    The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was set up on May 6, 1935, by presidential order, as a ...

  7. North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    While North Carolina's urban areas have enjoyed a prosperous economy with steady job growth, low unemployment, and rising wages, many of the state's rural counties have suffered from job loss, rising levels of poverty, and population loss as their manufacturing base has declined.

  8. Governorship of Wes Moore - Wikipedia

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    Wes Moore became the 63rd governor of Maryland on January 18, 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated far-right state delegate Dan Cox in the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election by a margin of 32%, becoming the state's first African-American governor. Moore has generally governed as a moderate. During his first term, he supported removing regulations limiting new housing ...

  9. List of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate ...

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    Unemployment in the US by State (June 2023) The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication. [1][2] While the non-seasonally adjusted data reflects ...