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Map Monday: Margarine's Colorful Past

Margarine arrived in America in the 1870s as an affordable alternative to butter that also provided Chicago's meatpacking industry with a profitable use for surplus animal fat.
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Map Monday: Poverty Rates Across the States

Nationally, 12.5 percent of Americans live in poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That number is considerably higher in some states, even as rates improved since the pandemic sent the number in poverty soaring.
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