Welcome to thedatabulletin
We pull the latest official U.S. numbers the moment they're released and put them next to the claims people make about them. Pick a section:
Core Indicators
Data Check
Sample entriesWhen a public claim quotes data, we pull the official numbers and show them next to it - no spin, no name-calling, sources always linked. Findings come in three flavors: Matches the data, Needs context, and Doesn't match the data.
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Crime Trends
Rates per 100,000 people, FBI Uniform Crime Reporting estimates. We show trends and state-vs-national context only - the FBI advises against ranking states or cities, and so do we.
Violent Crime Rate - CA vs National
Property Crime Rate - National
Violent Crime by Offense - National
Energy Costs
Sample dataResidential Electricity Price by State
Regular Gasoline - U.S. Weekly Average
Gasoline by Region
Climate & Disasters
Sample dataGlobal storm, wildfire, and disaster data. Cyclone counts come straight from NOAA's worldwide storm archive, the record every national weather agency feeds into. The wildfire and disaster cards need free keys we haven't installed yet - they say so and show labeled sample data until then.
Tropical Storms, Hurricanes & Typhoons by Season
Strongest Storms of 2025
Wildfire Detections - Past Day
Natural Disaster Toll by Year - Worldwide
Human Well-being
Sample dataHow people around the world are actually doing: how long they live, whether they have enough to eat and drink, whether their children survive, whether they have housing. Live from the WHO and the World Bank; the housing card is curated by hand from OECD tables. Where countries measure things differently, we say so next to the chart.
Life Expectancy at Birth - World
Undernourishment - World
Food Insecurity - World
Child Mortality - World
Renewable Freshwater per Person
Homelessness - Reported Counts
Full Data List
Available with our current keysEverything thedatabulletin can pull today from official sources. Items already live on the site are marked ●. The rest is queued - tell us what you want to see next.
FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data
- ● Unemployment rate (national; state-level available)
- ● CPI inflation, month-over-month and yearly
- ● Real GDP (national; state GDP available)
- ● Federal funds rate
- ● 30-year mortgage rates
- ● Job openings (JOLTS)
- ● Retail sales
- ● Consumer sentiment (U. Michigan)
- ● Personal savings rate
- ● Median home sale prices
- Treasury yields & yield curve
- Housing starts & building permits
- Wages and average earnings
- Personal income by state
- Industrial production
- Corporate profits
- National debt and deficits
- Dollar exchange rates
- Recession indicators
BLS - Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Nonfarm payrolls (the monthly "jobs number")
- Unemployment by state, metro area, and demographic group
- CPI detail: food, energy, rent, medical care, used cars…
- Producer prices (wholesale inflation)
- Average hourly earnings
- Hires, quits, and layoffs (JOLTS detail)
- Employment by industry and occupation
- Productivity and labor costs
- Consumer spending patterns
- Union membership rates
FBI & Justice - Crime Data Explorer + BJS
- ● Violent crime rates: national and all 50 states
- ● Property crime rates
- ● Offense detail: homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault
- Burglary, larceny, motor-vehicle theft, arson
- Arrest statistics
- Hate crime statistics
- Police employment & officers assaulted/killed (LEOKA)
- Human trafficking reports
- Agency-level data (individual police departments)
- BJS victimization survey (includes unreported crime)
EIA - U.S. Energy Information Administration
- ● Weekly gasoline prices: national and by region
- ● Residential electricity prices by state
- Diesel prices
- Electricity by sector (residential / commercial / industrial)
- Average monthly electric bills by state
- Natural gas prices
- Crude oil prices (WTI & Brent)
- Propane and heating oil (winter heating costs)
- Power generation mix: solar, wind, gas, coal, nuclear
- CO2 emissions from energy
- Official short-term energy price forecasts
U.S. Census Bureau
- Population: state, county, city, age, and growth
- Median household income by state and county
- Poverty rates
- Migration: who's moving where
- Housing units, vacancy, and homeownership rates
- Educational attainment
- Commute times
- New business formation
- International trade by state
Climate & Disasters - NOAA, NASA, EM-DAT
- ● Tropical cyclone tracks and intensities, every ocean basin (NOAA IBTrACS)
- ● Wildfire detections worldwide, updated through the day (NASA FIRMS - key pending)
- ● Disaster deaths, people affected, people left homeless since 1900 (EM-DAT - key pending)
- Burned-area totals by region (NASA FIRMS)
- Disaster damage estimates in dollars (EM-DAT)
- Sea level and ocean conditions (Copernicus Marine - needs a backend pipeline)
- Heat waves, drought, and rainfall extremes (Copernicus Climate Data Store - needs a backend pipeline)
Human Well-being - WHO, World Bank, OECD, FAO
- ● Life expectancy at birth, world and every country (WHO)
- ● Child mortality (WHO)
- ● Undernourishment and food insecurity (FAO via World Bank)
- ● Renewable freshwater per person (FAO via World Bank)
- ● Homelessness counts (OECD Affordable Housing Database - curated tables)
- Cause-of-death detail: road deaths, suicide, air pollution (WHO)
- Poverty rates and income (World Bank)
- GDP, inflation, unemployment for 200+ countries (World Bank)
- Immunization coverage and disease burden (WHO)