Here are some things you may or may not know about people in the United States and the way they live .some of them may surprise you.

1- The U.S population is approx imately 250 million
2-between 1980, forty percent of the population increase in the U.S .was due to immig ration .
3-most of today's immigrants are from Mexico, the Philippines and china.
4-california has a larger population than either Canada or Australia.
5-The average annual income is about $25000 although 7% of the population is unemployed.
6- About twenty percent of the population moves every year.
7-On the average ,a person in the U.S.changes jobs about every four years.
8-There are an estimated 250000 homeless people in the cities and towns of the U.S.
9-The average cost of college tuition per year is $11269 at a private university and $4711 at a public university.
10-Approximately twenty –three percent of American women and thirty percent of American men never marry.
11-On the average, people spend only 20 minutes eating dinner.
12- Americans eat an average of 16lbs. of ice cream every year.