Here are the top statistics of the week to get you thinking:
1….SCHOOL CHOICE
A 2019 Urban Institute study found low-income students using choice scholarships were up to 43% more likely than their public-school peers to attend four-year colleges, and up to 20% more likely to earn bachelor’s degrees.
2….SCHOOL FAILURES
Meanwhile, a staggering 80 schools in Illinois do not have a single student — not one — who is proficient in math. Further, 24 schools have zero pupils who are proficient in reading. This is despite the fact that the average amount of money spent per pupil in the area is almost $25,000 per year per pupil.
3…COLLEGE LIBERAL BIAS
In the 2022 election cycle, 93% of donations by professors nationwide went to Democrats; just 7% went to Republicans, per a study of educators’ donations done by Data Orbital for the Education Freedom Institute. https://nypost.com/2026/07/27/opinion/even-the-left-is-now-flagging-the-gross-bias-at-americas-universities/
A new study by the America First Policy Institute found that 40% of faculty would oppose hiring any Trump supporter, one in four were in favor of purging existing faculty who expressed conservative views and 43% of conservative faculty report being penalized for their views.
4…REPEAT CRIMINALS
As esteemed criminologist Barry Latzer notes, the average American inmate was arrested a whopping 11 times before getting locked up, and an astonishing 83% of released prisoners are ultimately rearrested — about half in the first year after release.
Socialists might think they’re helping black Americans amid our post-1619 Project racial reckoning, but they fail here, too: Nearly 90% of black homicide victims are killed by black perpetrators.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/27/opinion/mamdani-dsa-aim-to-transform-america-by-pushing-barbarism/
5… HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA
Since 2017, homelessness in California has surged by more than 40% — from roughly 134,000 people to nearly 187,000 in 2024 — despite an estimated $30 billion in spending that Governor Gavin Newsom authorized. California is home to nearly one-third of America’s unsheltered population.
https://nypost.com/2026/03/30/opinion/newsom-tries-to-shift-blame-on-homelessness/
6…RATE SHOCK
Electric utility bills have exploded in New York: As of May, the average monthly residential rate had jumped 13% over the previous year, and a whopping 54% since May 2019.
7….DISABILITY
The Social Security Administration’s disability programs, SSDI and SSI, are the one part of the greater disability archipelago we know the most about. According to their numbers, working-age beneficiaries on the disability rolls grew sevenfold from 1965 to 2023.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/08/opinion/7-million-young-men-dont-want-to-work-we-must-force-them/