Plus, data on the millions of people accessing the SNAP program.

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Vaccinating America's kids

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the use of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 on November 2. A little over a month later, USAFacts has the numbers on how those vaccination efforts are going ([link removed]) , including:
* About 15% of children ages 5 to 11, or 4.2 million people, have received at least one COVID-19 shot since the November approval. That's one out of every seven children in the age group.

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* More than 25% of children of this age group in Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island have at least had their first shot. Idaho does not have available vaccination data for kids this age.

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Abortion data for context behind Dobbs v. Jackson

On December 1, the Supreme Court heard arguments on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization regarding Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban. The case is pending a decision from the court. In the meantime, USAFacts has data on reported abortions ([link removed]) for context on the issue.
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* Some states do not report abortion data, but numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a drop in the procedure since 2006.

* Since 2013, most abortion patients have been white, non-Hispanic people. The only exception was in 2016 when Black, non-Hispanic people had the largest percentage of abortions by race.

* People between the ages of 20–24 had the most reported abortions for much of the 2010s. However, that changed in 2018 and now 25–29-year-olds have the most reported abortions of any group.

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Food insecurity during the pandemic

The government has several programs to fight food insecurity, but need has grown during the pandemic. Get the facts on just what food insecurity is and how the government combats it in this new article ([link removed]) .
* A monthly average of 42 million people have participated in SNAP in 2021 thus far.

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* Black families and Hispanic families experienced higher rates of food insecurity in 2020. More than 21% of Black households and 17% of Hispanic households were food insecure.

* Last year, 55% of food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest federal nutrition assistance programs: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (also known as food stamps), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, and the National School Lunch Program.
One last fact

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Non-store retailers — primarily online shops that don't have brick-and-mortar stores — were not as affected by the pandemic as physical stores. But like most physical stores, they too had a sales bump during the holiday shopping season. Here's a comparison of the first year of the pandemic to 2019.

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