17 percent Percentage of people born between 1981
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17 percent
Percentage of people born between 1981 and 1996 who are registered Republicans, down from 27 percent in the same group of people 10 years earlier.
Gen X is also leaving the GOP, as of those born between 1965 and 1980, 34 percent of those voters were registered Republican in 1994 compared to just 25 percent today. [Pew Research Center]
$50 billion
Estimated size of the legal marijuana business by 2026, up from $6 billion last year. Cashing in on the legal marijuana market is former NFL player and Heisman trophy winner Ricky Williams, who to some notoriety left the league after failing a drug test and testing positive for marijuana, then returning a year later, then failing another drug test, then getting suspended, then retiring a few years later. Marijuana, the cause of and solution to Ricky Williams’s problems. [Bloomberg]
$40,000 for each violation
The Federal Trade Commission has opened an inquiry into whether Facebook violated a legal agreement it had with the government on user privacy when electioneering firm Cambridge Analytica obtained the data of 50 million users.
If it finds Facebook broke that accord, they could fine the company $40,000 per violation. [The Washington Post]