The National Housing Act of 1934 and the GI Bill of 1944 introduced long-term, fully amortizing, government-backed mortgages that required down payments of 20% or less

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In 1925, the United States Congress enacted statutory authorization for the construction of Arlington Memorial Bridge connecting Washington, D.C., to Virginia

The Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., formerly housed industrial power plants converting coal into gas in the nineteenth century

In 1973, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) instituted an oil embargo against the United States, causing crude oil prices to quadruple

Coretta Scott King testified before the United States Congress in the 1970s regarding transitioning the United States economy away from wartime defense spending toward a peacetime economy

The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1933, moved the start dates of presidential and congressional terms to January

In June 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar panels on the roof of the West Wing of the White House

Automated underwriting systems have been utilized in United States government-backed mortgages for decades

Because Federal Housing Administration appraisal standards mandated racial segregation, the fertility increases spurred by post-war government-backed mortgages were concentrated almost entirely among white women

Widespread remote work reduced housing prices in city centers while increasing housing prices in outer suburbs

The Democratic Party lost approximately one thousand elected seats across federal, state, and local governments during the presidency of Barack Obama

Between 1940 and 1960, the United States experienced a major increase in its general fertility rate known as the Baby Boom

In the 1970s, the United States consumed approximately one-third of the global oil supply

In February 1977, President Jimmy Carter delivered a televised fireside chat urging Americans to set thermostats to 65 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and 55 degrees at night

The general fertility rate in the United States declined precipitously across the 1960s and 1970s

Prior to the implementation of federal mortgage guarantees from the National Housing Act of 1934 and the GI Bill of 1944, conventional home mortgages typically required down payments of 50% to 60%

Prior to the 1934 and 1944 federal housing programs, fewer than 20% of Americans aged 18 to 44 owned a home

Ben Wattenberg co-founded the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, the precursor to the Democratic Leadership Council

Al Fromm, Will Marshall, and Elaine Kamarck helped found the Democratic Leadership Council to move the Democratic Party toward the political center

For every 1,000 government-backed mortgages issued in a United States state in a given year during the Baby Boom era, an additional 305 births occurred in that state the following year

In the 1960 United States Census, approximately 35% of households that purchased a home had a child within the following year