Cost of Living in 2020

How Much things cost in 2020
- Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.23% (SOURCE - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/inflation-rate-cpi)
- Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average  26,890.67 (SOURCE - https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart)
- Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve ???
- Average Cost of new house $389,400.00 (SOURCE - https://www.statista.com/statistics/240991/average-sales-prices-of-new-homes-sold-in-the-us/#:~:text=After%20plateauing%20between%202017%20and,it%20reached%20408%2C800%20U.S.%20dollars.)
- Average Income per year $67,521.00 (SOURCE - https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-273.html#:~:text=Median%20household%20income%20was%20%2467%2C521,median%20household%20income%20since%202011.)
- Average Monthly Rent $1,104.00 (SOURCE - https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/average-rent-by-year)
- Cost of a gallon of Gas $2.18 in July 2020 (SOURCE - https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emm_epmr_pte_nus_dpg&f=m)
- Average cost of new car $45,031.00 (SOURCE - https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/average-new-car-costs-price-increase/#:~:text=In%20September%2C%20the%20average%20new,from%20%2442%2C000%20this%20past%20June.)
- US Postage Stamp 58 cents (SOURCE - https://www.al.com/news/2021/08/stamp-prices-going-up-aug-29.html#:~:text=Get%20ready%20to%20start%20paying,to%2058%20cents%20per%20stamp.)
- 1 LB of Bacon $5.58 (SOURCE - https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/bacon-prices-by-year-and-adjusted-for-inflation/)
- Ground Coffee per LB ???
- Loaf of Bread $1.43 (SOURCE - https://stacker.com/stories/1227/cost-goods-year-you-were-born)
- Dozen Eggs $1.51 (SOURCE - https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/egg-prices-adjusted-for-inflation/)

What Events Happened In 2020
- The U.S. drone strike at Baghdad International Airport in early January killed the powerful General Qasem Soleimani, thought to be the second most powerful person in Iran after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In response, Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq, injuring U.S. service members, and mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger airplane taking off from Tehran, killing all 176 people aboard.
- Royal watchers were stunned by the announcement in January that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were stepping down from their position as senior royals. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex later traded Britain for the United States, settling in Southern California with their young son, Archie.
- On January 9, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a cluster of mysterious pneumonia-like cases in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 might have been caused by a previously unidentified coronavirus.
- The respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, got its own official name in mid-February: COVID-19, or CO for corona, VI for virus and D for disease.
- On January 26 came the shocking news that the NBA star Kobe Bryant, along with his daughter, Gianna, and seven other people, had been killed in a helicopter crash due to foggy conditions in Calabasas, California.
- On March 11, with Italy reporting more than 12,000 cases and 800 deaths and cases rising in the United States and elsewhere, the WHO officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on March 13.
- News of the pandemic’s spread triggered a global recession, and Congress passed a $2.2 trillion stimulus package, the largest in U.S. history. By April some 6.6 million Americans had filed for unemployment. That month, the U.S. unemployment rate reached 14.7 percent, the highest since the Great Depression.
- While social distancing, mask-wearing and other measures helped to lower the virus toll in some parts of the country by summer, rising case rates forced Texas, Florida, California and other states to postpone or halt reopening plans.
- COVID-19 shut down the Summer Olympics and other sporting events: The Summer Olympics, scheduled to take place in Tokyo, Japan, were rescheduled to July-August 2021, forcing thousands of athletes around the world to put their dreams on hold for another year.
- On May 25, George Floyd was arrested by police in Minneapolis for allegedly using a counterfeit bill. Video footage showed one of the officers kneeling on Floyd’s neck as he was pinned on the ground, saying over and over that he couldn’t breathe. In the weeks that followed, outrage over Floyd’s murder and support for the Black Lives Matter movement fueled mass protests against systemic racism and police violence in more than 2,000 U.S. cities and 60 countries around the globe. By early June, some 62,000 National Guard troops had been deployed in 30 states, and more than 4,400 people had been arrested in connection with the protests. Later in the summer, protests were renewed in many cities after a police officer shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, paralyzing him from the waist down, and a grand jury returned no charges against officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier in the year.
- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died: News of Ginsburg's death from complications of pancreatic cancer at the age of 87 devastated many Americans who saw her as a liberal icon and champion of women's rights.
- Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won a historic election: After emerging from a crowded primary field, Vice President Joe Biden clinched the Democratic nomination and chose Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, making her the first African American, first Asian American and third female vice presidential candidate in U.S. history. In November, Biden and Harris defeated the incumbent President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in an election that saw record numbers of people voting early and by mail. Both candidates received more votes than any other U.S. presidential candidate in history, with Trump receiving more than 74 million votes and Biden more than 81 million. 
(All copied from - https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/2020-events)

Popular Culture 2020

Popular Films
- A Quiet Place Part II
- Hamilton
- Wonder Woman 1984
- Soul
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- The King of Staten Island
- Mulan
- News of the World
- Minari
(SOURCE - https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=2020&title_type=feature&)

Popular Musicians
- Harry Styles
- Post Malone
- The Weeknd
- Roddy Rich
- Dababy
- Drake
- Juice WRLD
- Lil Baby
- Taylor Swift
- Pop Smoke
(SOURCE - https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2020/top-artists/)

Popular Television
- Better Call Saul
- Lovecraft Country
- Brockmire
- I May Destroy You
- The Good Love Bird
- Normal People
- Bluey
- Better Things
(SOURCE - https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-lists/20-best-tv-shows-2020-1098246/better-things-fx-5-1098348/)

Technology 2020
- For all those searching for a new planet to call home, the year brought at least a bit of good news. SpaceX, the company founded by billionaire Elon Musk to fulfill his dream of colonizing Mars, launched NASA astronauts into orbit for the first time since the U.S. government retired the space shuttle program in 2011. SpaceX regularly transports cargo to the International Space Station, and in 2020 became the first private enterprise ever to launch astronauts there. 
(SOURCE - https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/2020-events)