The risk of homicide is three times higher in homes with guns (Source: New England Journal of Medicine)

Men who own handguns are eight times more likely to die of gun suicide. Women who own handguns are 35 times more likely to die of gun suicide. (Source: Stanford Medicine)

Suicide rates are four times higher among children and teens living in homes with guns. (Source: JAMA Pediatrics Journal)

States with more guns and looser gun laws have more mass shootings. (Source: The British Medical Journal)

In a domestic violence situation, women are five times more likely to be killed if a gun is in the home - even if it’s her gun. (Source: American Journal of Public Health)

Most gun owners do not store their guns safely. (Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

In communities with more guns, people are more likely to be killed or wounded by daily gun violence, mass shootings and shootings by police officers. (Source: Annals of Internal Medicine and Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science)

More guns do not lead to fewer crimes. (Source: Scientific American)

Nearly 70% of guns used in school shootings came from the home of the attacker or their relative (Source: US Secret Service and Department of Education)

80% of young voting-age Americans (18-29) support access to choice (Gallup 2020)

Abortions are one of the safest medical procedures performed today. It’s 99 percent safe, according to the Centers for Disease Control. (ACLU)

90% of US counties are without a single abortion provider. (Center for Reproductive Rights)

Black and Indigenous women in the U.S. are roughly three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. (Center for Reproductive Rights)

Nearly 500 laws restricting abortion access have been passed by U.S. states since 2011. (Center for Reproductive Rights)

The average cost of a year’s supply of birth control pills is the equivalent of 51 hours of work for a woman making the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. (Guttmacher Institute)

The average cost of birth control pills for uninsured women over a year ($370) is 68 percent of their annual out-of-pocket expenditures for health care services. (Women's out-of-pocket expenditures and dispensing patterns for oral contraceptive pills, Liang, Grossman, and Phillips 2011)

During the 2015–2016 school year, Black students represented only 15% of total US student enrollment, but they made up 35% of students suspended once, 44% of students suspended more than once, and 36% of students expelled. (US Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights)

African-Americans have a median wealth of $13,460. Whites have a median wealth of $142,180. (Forbes)

Racism costs the US almost $2 trillion each year. This comes in the form of bias against workers, wage discrimination, hiring discrimination, discrimination based on price, services discrimination, discrete usage discrimination and capital investment discrimination. (W.K. Kellogg Foundation)

From 2013 to 2017, white patients in the US received better quality health care than about 34% of Hispanic patients, 40% of Black patients, and 40% of Native American patients. (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.)

There are typically around 6,000 hate crimes every year – with about 60% of them racially motivated or related to ethnicity/national origin bias. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

In the US, Black individuals are twice as likely to be unemployed than white individuals. Once employed, Black individuals earn nearly 25% less than their white counterparts. (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab)

Black Americans and white Americans use drugs at similar rates, but Black Americans are 6 times more likely to be arrested for it. (NAACP. “Criminal Justice Fact Sheet.”)

80% of gay and lesbian youth report severe social isolation. ("Gay & Lesbian Youth " National Dropout Prevention Center)

While non-LGBTQIA+ students struggle most with school classes, exams, and work, their LGBTQIA+ peers say the biggest problem they face is unaccepting families. (Human Rights Campaign)

The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which restricted lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the military from openly serving, was lifted in 2011. People who are transgender are not permitted to serve openly yet. (United States Department of Defense)

• January 25, 2021 - President Joe Biden signs an executive order repealing the 2019 Trump-era ban on most transgender Americans joining the military. (CNN)

11.5% of all Gen Z adults in the U.S. say they are bisexual, with about 2% each identifying as gay, lesbian or transgender. (Gallup)

Roughly 21% of Generation Z Americans who have reached adulthood -- those born between 1997 and 2003 -- identify as LGBTQIA+. (Gallup)

n 2015, nearly one in five hate crimes committed in the US was due to sexual orientation, and another 2% of crimes were committed because of gender identity. (FBI)

16 states across the country do not include gender or sexual identity under their hate crime laws, another 13 states only cover sexual orientation, and four states have no hate crime laws at all. (Movement Advancement Project)

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development reported in 2013 that same sex couples experience unfavorable treatment in renting homes online, and there are still 28 states where housing discrimination is legal. (Global Citizen)

The official poverty rate in 2020 was 11.4 percent, up 1.0 percentage point from 10.5 percent in 2019. This is the first increase in poverty after five consecutive annual declines (US Census Bureau)

In 2018, 10.6% of men, and 12.9% of women lived in Poverty USA. Along the same lines, the poverty rate for married couples in 2018 was only 4.7% - but the poverty rate for single-parent families with no wife present was 12.7%, and for single-parent families with no husband present was 24.9%. (Poverty USA)

The highest poverty rate by race is found among Native Americans (25.4%), with Blacks (20.8%) having the second highest poverty rate, and Hispanics (of any race) having the third highest poverty rate (17.6%). Whites had a poverty rate of 10.1%, while Asians had a poverty rate at 10.1%. (US Census Bureau)

Depression and anxiety disorders cost the global economy $1 trillion in lost productivity each year. It is also a leading cause of disability worldwide. (National Alliance on Mental Health)

46 percent of Americans will meet the criteria for a diagnosable mental health condition sometime in their life, and half of those people will develop conditions by the age of 14. (National Library of Medicine)

5 percent of Gen Z members said that mass shootings are a significant source of stress. (The Harris Poll)

This generation is also significantly more likely (27 percent) than other generations, including millennials (15 percent) and Gen Xers (13 percent), to report their mental health as fair or poor. (American Phycology Association)

58% percent of Gen Z reported two or more unmet social needs, compared with 16% of people from older generations. These perceived unmet social needs, including income, employment, education, food, housing, transportation, social support, and safety, are associated with higher self-reported rates of behavioral-health conditions. (McKinsey&Company)