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The 1980 census shows a population in the United States of 226,542,203, an 11.4% increase since 1970.
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Inflation Rate :13.58%
Household Income: $16.542
GDP: 6.49T
Unemployment: 7.1%
Interest rate: 13.77% -
John Hinckley Jr. opened fire on U.S. President Ronald Reagan outside of the Washington Hilton Hotel. President Reagan was hit by one bullet, which punctured his lung. Three others were also injured in the shooting.
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Inflation rate: 10'.35%
H.Income: $28,506
GDP: $6.49billion
Unemployment rate: 7.1%
Interest rate: 16.63% -
Inflation rate: 6.16%
H.Income: $19,032
GDP: 6.49trillion
Unemployment rate: 9.7%
Interest Rate: 16.8 -
President Reagan signs legislation meant to rescue the Social Security System from bankruptcy.
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Inflation rate: 3.22%
H. Income: $19,494
GDP: $6.99trillion
Unemployment rate: 9.7%
Interest rate: 13.23% -
Inflation rate: 4.30%
H.Income: $20,948
GDP: $7.39trillion
Unemployment rate: 7.5%
Interest rate: 13.87 -
Inflattion rate: 3.55%
H.Income: $22,109
GDP: $7.7trillion
Unemployment rate: 7.2%
Interest rate: 12.42% -
The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its launch. All seven crew members died and the shuttle fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Inflation rate: 1.91%
H.Income: $23,339
GDP: $7.93trillion
Unemployment rate: 7.0%
Interest rate: 10.18% -
The United States and the Soviet Union sign an agreement
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Inflation rate:3.66%
H.Income:$24,489
GDP:8.28trillion
Unemployment rate:6.2%
Interest rate:10.20% -
Inflation rate: 4.08%
H.Income: $25,693
GDP: 8.60trillion
Unemployment rate: 5.5%
Interest rate: 10.34% -
Economic reports on the previous year from the Labor Department indicate a growth rate of 3.8%, the largest in four years and an unemployment rate of 5.3%, a low of fourteen years.
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The Savings and Loan Bailout is approved by Congress and signed into law by President George Herbert Walker Bush.
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Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. By 1989, the Soviet Union could not keep their empire anymore.
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Inflation rate: 4.83%
H.Income: $27,3921
GDP: $8.84trillion
Unemployment rate: 5.3%
Interest rate: 10.32%
