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Supply shortageSouth KoreaMissing 1

공공임대 대기 9만 3,497명 — 올해 들어갈 수 있는 것은 8.3%, 최장 대기는 16년 5개월

공공주택 사업시행자의 건설공공임대에 입주를 기다리는 사람이 9만 3,497명입니다. 2026년에 배정된 입주 물량은 7,779호로 대기자의 8.3% 입니다.

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Evidence type
Secondary
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24
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0
People affected
85,718–93,497as of 2025~2026
Measurement absentSouth KoreaMissing 1

초등학생 학교폭력 피해 응답률이 2025년 1차 조사에서 5.0% — 자기보고 하나로는 발생 증가인지 인식 변화인지 가릴 수 없다

교육부와 17개 시도교육청은 해마다 초등학교 4학년부터 고등학교 3학년까지 전수조사를 합니다. 2025년 1차 조사는 4월 14일부터 5월 13일까지 397만 명을 대상으로 했습니다.

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not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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24
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0
People affected
83,370–99,250as of 2024~2025
Supply shortageSouth KoreaMissing 1

자살예방상담 109 — 하루 1,118통이 오는데 최대로 받을 수 있는 것이 580통이다

자살예방상담전화 109에 걸려 오는 전화가 2026년 1분기 기준 하루 평균 1,118건입니다. 같은 시점 이 전화가 하루에 받을 수 있는 최대치는 580건이고, 실제로는 그 92%인 532건을 받았습니다.

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not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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21
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0
People affected
322,116–352,914as of 2024~2025
Institutional gapSouth KoreaMissing 1

미등록 이주아동 — 정부는 5천, 시민사회는 2만. 구제는 5년째 한시 조치다

체류 자격이 없는 부모에게서 태어났거나, 자격이 만료된 뒤에도 한국에 남아 있는 아동이 있습니다. 이 아이들은 자기 선택으로 미등록 상태가 된 것이 아닙니다.

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not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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24
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0
People affected
5,000–20,000as of 2025
Institutional gapSouth KoreaMissing 1

보이스피싱 — 건수는 14% 느는데 피해액은 95% 늘었다. 한 건이 5,301만 원이다

전화금융사기 피해액이 2023년 4,616억 원에서 2024년 9,525억 원으로 두 배가 됐습니다. 2025년은 1~7월에만 7,992억 원으로 전년 같은 기간보다 95% 늘었습니다.

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not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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22
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0
People affected
33,196–37,843as of 2024~2025
Enforcement absentSouth KoreaMissing 1

임금체불 2조 679억 — 3년 연속 최대인데 사법처리는 22.6%

일한 대가를 받지 못한 노동자가 노동청에 신고합니다. 2025년 한 해 그렇게 집계된 체불액이 2조 678억 9,600만 원이고, 신고한 노동자는 26만 2,304명입니다. 체불액은 2023년 1조 7,845억, 2024년 2조 448억에 이어 3년 연속 최대치를 갈아치웠습니다.

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not confirmed
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Secondary
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19
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0
People affected
262,304–283,212as of 2024~2025
Supply disparitySouth KoreaMissing 3

상수도 누수율이 2021년 기준 서울 1.8% · 군 지역 24.5% · 제주 43.1% — 전국 평균 10.2% 뒤의 지역 간 격차

정수장에서 보낸 물 중 수도꼭지까지 닿지 못하고 땅속에서 새는 비율을 누수율이라고 합니다. 전국 평균은 2021년 10.2%, 2024년 10.1% 입니다. 한 해 새어 나간 양이 2021년 기준 6억 8,761만 m³ 입니다.

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not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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not recorded
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23
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0
People affected
Not derivable
Enforcement absentSouth KoreaMissing 1

도박한 청소년의 48.4%가 남의 이름을 썼다 — 본인확인이 뚫린 자리

청소년의 도박은 법으로 금지돼 있습니다. 그런데 2024년 청소년 도박 실태조사에서 초등학교 4학년부터 고등학교 3학년까지 재학생의 4.3% 가 도박을 한 번 이상 해 봤다고 답했습니다. 재학생 약 390만 명 기준으로 17만 명 안팎입니다.

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not confirmed
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Secondary
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20
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0
People affected
32,031–167,700as of 2024
Measurement absentSouth KoreaMissing 1

「쉬었음」 청년 71만 7천 명 — 무엇을 세는 칸인지 아무도 모른다

고용 통계에는 「쉬었음」이라는 칸이 있습니다. 최근 4주 안에 구직활동을 하지 않았고, 조사 직전 1주간의 활동이 육아도 가사도 취업 준비도 아닌 단순 휴식인 경우에 여기로 분류됩니다.

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not confirmed
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Secondary
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21
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0
People affected
622,000–717,000as of 2022~2025
Coordination failureUnited StatesMissing 2

42.45 billion dollars for broadband, appropriated in 2021 — no deployment project funded through August 2025

In late 2021 Congress appropriated 42.45 billion dollars for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, the largest federal investment in broadband infrastructure to that date. NTIA notified the 56 states and territories of their allocations on 2023-06-30 and stated o…

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not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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not recorded
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21
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0
People affected
2,278,355–3,379,711as of 2026-02
Enforcement absentUnited StatesMissing 2

Recorded child labor violations rose 103 percent from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2023 while federal investigators fell from 780 to 733

Federal investigators found 5,766 minors employed in violation of child labor law in fiscal year 2023, up 88 percent from 3,073 in fiscal year 2019. Over the same five years the count of recorded child labor law violations rose from 3,748 to 7,624, a 103 percent increase, and it…

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not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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not recorded
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22
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0
People affected
4,030–5,766as of FY2023~FY2024
Coordination failureUnited StatesMissing 1

Each of the seven Colorado River basin states can veto and none can decide, and the cuts are made administratively — the Lake Powell release for water year 2026 was reduced from 7.48 to 6.00 million acre-feet

The 1922 Colorado River Compact apportioned 7.5 million acre-feet a year to the Upper Basin and 7.5 million acre-feet to the Lower Basin, with up to 1 million acre-feet more available to the Lower Basin, and a 1944 treaty added 1.5 million acre-feet for Mexico. Those shares rest…

Resolution status
not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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not recorded
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27
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0
People affected
35,000,000–40,000,000as of 2026
Supply shortageUnited StatesMissing 2

Emergency departments board psychiatric patients for days — and no national measure counts the wait

People who arrive at a United States emergency department in psychiatric crisis are held in that department until an inpatient bed opens somewhere, and for a large share of them the wait is measured in days rather than hours. Among Medicaid-enrolled youths aged 5 to 17 across 44…

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not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
Outlet
not recorded
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21
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0
People affected
30,359as of 2022
Institutional exemptionUnited StatesMissing 2

The FMLA defines who it does not reach — for a worker failing the tenure, hours or worksite-size test the unpaid entitlement simply does not exist, so no denial is ever recorded

The Family and Medical Leave Act gives 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave, but only to employees who clear three tests at the same time — 12 months with the employer, 1,250 hours of work in the preceding year, and a worksite where the employer has at least 50 employees with…

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not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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not recorded
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23
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0
People affected
67,232,440–71,396,160as of 2026-06
Incentive inversionUnited StatesMissing 4

US drug shortages averaged 5.3 years in 2025 — and the cheapest injectables are the ones that disappear

An annual US drug shortages report, released on 2026-06-09, counted 75 drugs in shortage at the end of 2025, down from 98 a year earlier. The count fell and the shortages got longer: the average shortage ran 5.3 years in 2025, against 4.3 years in 2024 and roughly two years in 2…

Resolution status
not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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not recorded
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25
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0
People affected
Not derivable
Coordination failureUnited StatesMissing 3

Grid interconnection queues hold 2,061 gigawatts — 75 percent of past requests were withdrawn

At the end of 2025, 2,061 gigawatts of generation and storage capacity were actively waiting for permission to connect to the electric grid in the United States. The queue shrank 10 percent during that year, but it shrank because projects gave up rather than because they were co…

Resolution status
not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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not recorded
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23
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0
People affected
Not derivable
Institutional gapUnited StatesMissing 4

Water levels fall where no one can cap pumping — and rose 200 feet where someone did

In Texas the rule of capture gives the owner of the land the water beneath it, and the owner may use as much of it as desired so long as it is not wasted or taken maliciously. Groundwater provides 54 percent of the total water supply of Texas, and availability is expected to fal…

Resolution status
not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
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not recorded
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17
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0
People affected
Not derivable
Supply shortageUnited StatesMissing 2

Housing voucher waiting lists — a 25-month average wait, and HUD has told agencies to stop issuing new vouchers

In the United States the queue for a housing voucher is often not a queue you can join. One national tracker counted 213 Housing Choice Voucher waiting lists open until further notice as of 2026-06-01, against 893 lists that were open for at least one day at some point in the pr…

Resolution status
not confirmed
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Evidence type
Secondary
Outlet
not recorded
Views
21
Comments
0
People affected
7,200,000–8,250,000as of 2026