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29 prices

Uber and Lyft can charge two riders wildly different prices for the exact same trip booked minutes apart -- in one test, 55 people booking the identical ride got 29 different prices.

Have you ever wondered whether the price you saw was the price everyone saw?

Consumer Reports

3,200+

More than 3,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005 — 130 of them in the past year — in the most content-flooded era in history.

Where do you actually find out what's going on where you live?

Northwestern Medill, State of Local News

11%

Wind supplies about 11% of U.S. electricity — the country's largest renewable source, and somehow the one nobody talks about.

When did you last actually see where your power comes from?

U.S. Energy Information Administration

$11,950

In-state tuition and fees at the average public four-year college rose to $11,950 this year; the private four-year average passed $45,000.

What would make college feel worth the sticker price again?

College Board

$220B

Americans owe at least $220 billion in medical debt.

What has a medical bill cost you beyond the money?

KFF / Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker

38

The typical first-time home buyer is now 38 years old, and first-time buyers' share of the market fell to 24% — a historic low.

What did buying a first place take for you — or what's it going to take?

National Association of Realtors

1 in 10

Researchers crawled 11,000 online shopping sites and found manipulative tricks -- like fake urgency and hidden costs -- on more than one in ten of them.

Where have you been rushed into buying something online?

Princeton University

$2,942

The average 2025 federal tax refund was $2,942 — money withheld from paychecks all year and returned without interest, and most of us celebrate when it arrives.

Refund day: does it feel like a gift, or like getting your own money back late?

Internal Revenue Service

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