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Important News of 2016

It Wasn't All Bad

Amanda Claire Monroe
Jan 03, 2017
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Important News of 2016
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2016 was a hard year for the world. Amid all the bad news, some pretty fantastic things happened this past year and we shouldn't look past that. So here are 10 good things that happened in 2016!

  1. Unemployment is at an all time low since the recession
  2. The Americas are the first region in the world to be officially measles free
  3. China said it will start to phase out its ivory trade
  4. The rerouting of the Dakota Access Pipeline
  5. Columbia Peace Deals end 52 years of armed conflict
  6. Sri Lanka is malaria free
  7. Harriet Tubman will be on the $20 bill
  8. World hunger is at its lowest in 25 years
  9. Global carbon emissions have remained flat-lined for the third year in a row
  10. Lastly, Leonardo DiCaprio finally got that OscarHere's to 2016. May 2017 be a year filled with even more good news!
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