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Winners & Losers - Episode 2: The 50 States of America - YouTube
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hello and welcome to episode two of
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winners and losers and what shall be
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looking at the 50 States of America once
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again the first Cathy will be size the
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largest of the 50 state says Alaska now
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looking at map like this Alaska doesn't
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actually look that big this is because
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maps like this don't show lasker to the
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same scale as the rest of the states in
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reality Alaska is much much bigger than
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that if you were to overlay Alaska's
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most western point over the San
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Francisco Bay Area its most eastern
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point would be around Jacksonville
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Florida on the opposite course Alaska
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comprises 18 percent of the country's
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total area and has nearly double the
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length of coastline as the other 14 name
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states combined if Alaska with our
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country it would be the 20th largest in
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the world and with her Alaska the USC
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would drop from the fourth to fifth
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largest country in the world behind
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Brazil Alaska is larger than the 22
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small states combined and is more than
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double the size the second largest state
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Texas in third place is California less
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than a quarter the size of Alaska the
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three smallest states are Connecticut
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Delaware and Rhode Island competing the
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largest and smallest days Alaska is four
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hundred and thirty times the size of
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Rhode Island of course
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size is a relative issue while Rhode
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Island may seem tiny compared to Alaska
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compared to the three smallest countries
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in the world
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Vatican City Monaco and Nauru Rhode
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Island seems pretty huge even compared
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to larger countries like Malta Singapore
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and Dominica Rhode Island still seems
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pretty big in fact Rhode Island is
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larger than 29 independent countries
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moving on to population though and in
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first place as California home to more
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than 38 million people nearly 1/8 the
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population of the entire country
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California has three of the top ten most
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populous cities in Enochs this if
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California will is one country it would
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be the 35th most populous country in the
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world
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once again Texas takes second place
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Texas also has three of the country's
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top ten most populated cities and sects
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of the top 20 but despite this Texas has
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about 12 million people less than
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California
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in third place is New York which has the
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most populous city in the United States
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its namesake New York City New York City
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makes up about 43 percent of the state's
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population yet less than 1% of the land
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area New York City is by far the most
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populous city in the state with the next
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most populous city being
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Buffalo is seventy thirty most populous
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in the country the three least populated
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states are North Dakota Vermont and
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Wyoming California has about 65 times as
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many people as Wyoming California has so
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many more people than Wyoming that 15 of
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California's counties have more people
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than the whole state of Wyoming
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California's smallest county by area San
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Francisco at just 122 square kilometres
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has about quarter million more people
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than Wyoming despite weigh on being
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about 5,400 times larger but despite all
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this the state of Wyoming has more
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people than thirty-three independent
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countries the next Kathie were going to
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look at as population density the most
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densely populated state as New Jersey
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the fourth smallest yet eleventh most
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populous state this is largely due to
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the state close proximity to New York
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City and Philadelphia the first and
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fifth most populous cities in the
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country second place goes to the small
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state Rhode Island and in third places
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Massachusetts if the whole country were
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as densely populated as New Jersey the
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population of the United States would be
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around 4.2 billion the least densely
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populated states are Montana Wyoming and
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Alaska if the whole country were
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sparsely populated at Alaska the
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population of the UNCA would only be
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around 4.5 million but what if the
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population densities of the states were
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less extreme what if the size of the
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state were appropriate for their
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population for example what if the 15th
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largest state was also the 15th most
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populous state and what if we did this
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for every state this is how the 50
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states would look if their size and
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population rankings were the same
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I can't help but feel that California
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really got the raw end of this deal you
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may also notice Rhode Island which has
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now literally an island state and only
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one state stays in the same place second
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largest and second was populous it's
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Texas and they want to homicide rate
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I'll start with the states with the
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lowest homicide rate and they are you
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Hampshire Vermont and Iowa the three
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states with the highest homicide rates
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all three of which are in the deep south
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Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana in
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fact most of the southern states have a
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higher than average homicide rate which
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can be seen from this map in what's the
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darker shades of red represent a higher
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homicide rate or if you prefer here's a
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map showing them rank from 1 to 50 now
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herbalist uh do is where the 50 stays in
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this category is worth mentioning the
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nation's capital Washington DC the
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District of Columbia is its own federal
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district nor part of any state but DC
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has a homicide rate higher than any of
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the 50 states in fact if the whole
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United States had a homicide rate of its
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capital city the USDA would have more
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annual homicides than any other country
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in the world and stacking with a theme
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of death the next category is suicide
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rate the states with the lowest suicide
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rates are New York New Jersey and
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Maryland the states with the highest
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suicide rates are on Tana Wyoming and
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Alaska now this bottom three may look
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familiar that's because this is the
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exact same bottom three as population
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density it's possible there's a
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correlation between population density
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and suicide rate here's a scatter graph
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showing all 50 states and if you
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remember from episode 1 Greenland had
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the highest suicide rate of any country
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and was also the least densely populated
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and once again mentioning Washington DC
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which has a lower suicide written in any
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of the 50 states and it's also more
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densely populated in any of them as well
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here's a color map showing the suicide
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rates with all the states and once again
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here they are right in order but moving
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away from Death Note and on to gross
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domestic product or GDP unsurprisingly
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the top three of the three most
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populated states if California is one
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country it would have the eighth largest
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economy in the world with a GDP similar
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to that Russia this is despite Russia
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having nearly four times the population
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of California here's a map of all 50
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states with compatible country in terms
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of GDP now it's worth noting that this
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is nominal GDP and doesn't take
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population into consideration so if we
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take Missouri for example compatible
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with Nigeria both having a GDP of around
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250 billion dollars but Missouri has a
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population of around 6 million while
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Nigeria has a population of 174 million
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29 times that of Missouri if you're not
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too good with flags though I've also
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made a text version it doesn't quite
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look as good though and here's a world
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map showing the USA and the 50
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compatible countries which have a
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combined population of nearly 1.9
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billion six times that of the u.s. see
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now today the USA is made up of 50
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states
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hence Wireless 50 stars on the American
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flag but this wasn't always the case so
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what were the very first States to
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become stays well the very first state
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was Delaware admitted to the Union on
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December 7 1787 I know this because it
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says so on their flag the next two
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states where Pennsylvania and New Jersey
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but the very first American flag
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actually had 13 stars representing the
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original 13 colonies that declared
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independence from the British Empire so
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it could be argued that all 13 of these
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states were first since they were all
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part of the original Yates days even
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though they all officially became states
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at different times the 13 stripes on the
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flag has remained constant again
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representing the original 13 colonies
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but the number of stars has changed
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every time the new state has joined the
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Union over the years the u.s. obtained
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more land through various means and the
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number of stars in the flag kept
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increasing over time
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in 1912 New Mexico and Arizona became
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States that's completed was today known
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as the lower 48 and for 47 years the
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American flag had 48 stars the two most
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recent states to join the Union we're
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Alaska and Hawaii Alaska was purchased
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from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million
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dollars which equates to about two cents
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per acre 7.2 million dollars in 1867 is
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equivalent to 119 million dollars today
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as for Hawaii Hawaii was its own country
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for a long time the Kingdom of Hawaii
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and very briefly the Republic of Hawaii
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this was until 1898 when Hawaiian
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Islands were annexed and United States
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as an organized incorporated territory
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and on August 21st 1959 the same years
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of Alaska Hawaii became the 50th state
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adding another star and completing what
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is the current flag of the USA the 50
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star flag has now been used for 54 years
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making the longest use flag in the
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country's history now the final category
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I'm going to look at as minimum wage
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minimum wage and Linnet States can be a
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very complex and often controversial
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issue but the three states with the
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highest minimum wages are the three West
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Coast states Washington Oregon and
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California but that doesn't mean that
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Washington has the highest minimum wage
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in the country because some individual
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cities and counties can set their own
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minimum wage the highest minimum wage in
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the country is actually San Francisco
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with a minimum wage of $10 but these are
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the minimum wages as of July the 1st
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2014 but several states pass bills to
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increase the minimum wage to be
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increased gradually over the next few
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years now the federal minimum wage is
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$7.25 that have a lower minimum wage
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than this Arkansas Minnesota Wyoming and
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Georgia although some states hello even
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lower minimum wages than this to small
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businesses for example in Montana an
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employer grossing less than 110,000
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dollars annually compares employees as
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little as four dollars per hour
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but then there's the whole issue of tech
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staff which applies to jobs in which the
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employee is expected to get regular tips
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such as waiters and bartenders
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for Tet stop the minimum wage can be as
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low as $2.13 per hour in many states
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where staff are expected to make the
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rest of their paycheck through customer
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tips although not all states pay tip
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staff less than other workers there are
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seven states that apply the exact same
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and and ways to touch staff as you do
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for other workers well as all for
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episode two of winners and losers and
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feel free to leave your suggestions for
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episode three thanks for watching
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