USA Data Desk 8
USA Data Desk covering Restaurant & hospitality data, Immigration & demographics.
About USA Data Desk 8
USA Data Desk covering Restaurant & hospitality data, Immigration & demographics. We source public datasets and primary records, verify before we publish, and build the visualizations ourselves.
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Who Owns Christmas: Twenty Years of the Holiday Box Office, in One Chart
The last six weeks of the year are the box office’s crown jewels, and a very short list owns them. The most dominant holiday week in twenty years is Spider-Man: No Way Home at 86%, with Avatar: The Way of Water close behind – and appearing three times – plus the Star Wars sequels.
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The Premium Ticket Trap: How IMAX and PLF Pricing Is Propping Up a Shrinking Box Office
IMAX alone took a record $1.28 billion in global box office in 2025, up 40% from the year before, and posted its highest-ever share of worldwide box office revenue — about 3.8%, according to the company’s own investor disclosures. That’s a striking number for a single premium format inside a domestic theatrical market that, as…
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Immigrants Are 19% of the U.S. Workforce. In the Jobs That Clean Hotels and Restaurants, They’re Twice That.
Foreign-born workers are 19.1% of the U.S. labor force. We ran the BLS’s own 2025 occupation data and found they’re 38.1% of building and grounds cleaning workers — more than double the national rate, and the highest concentration of any occupation we checked.