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Small pay gaps can reduce the whole team's performance

Even small differences in pay within a team can reduce attendance and productivity. The effect can appear among both the workers who earn less and those who earn more, suggesting that perceived unfairness can affect the whole group.

Hispaniola's Taíno population fell steeply

Spanish forced labor and enslavement devastated Taíno communities on Hispaniola. Reports put their population at about 400,000 before it fell to 60,000 by 1508 and 26,334 by 1514. A smallpox outbreak killed as many as one-third of those remaining by May 1519. Estimates of the pre-contact population vary widely, so the decline over the century after Spanish arrival is described as up to 95%.

U.S. gun homicide rates dwarfed high-income peers

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In 2010 mortality data, the U.S. gun homicide rate was 25 times the rate in other high-income countries. Overall, the U.S. homicide rate was seven times theirs, driven by the much higher gun homicide rate.

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