Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

• 🏛️🗳️ 20% of Americans say they wanted to be president as a child – but only 8% say they want to be president as an adult. (Read more)
• 🏫 Nearly a third of US K-12 students were behind grade-level for the school year ending in June (32%), per a new survey by the National Center for Education Statistics. (Read more)
• 💼 The share of Americans who disapprove of labor unions currently stands at 23% – the lowest level since September 1967, per Gallup data. (Read more)
• 🇺🇸 Around 90% of US children born in 1940 were ultimately better off than their parents; that figure stands at ~50% for those born in 1980, per economists from MIT and Harvard. (Read more)
• 🙏🏈 At least seven middle and high school football players across the US have died in August, either at practices, games, or after a practice. (Read more)