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Lori Chavez-DeRemer was born
on this day in 1968

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Lori Chavez-DeRemer — the American businesswoman and politician who has served as the United States Secretary of Labor since January 2025 — was born on this day — June 8, 1968 — in Hanford, California.

She is a graduate of California State University, Fresno, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Health Science.

Prior to her appointment to the Cabinet, Chavez-DeRemer represented Oregon’s 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. She previously served as the Mayor of Happy Valley, Oregon, from 2010 to 2018. Before her career in public service, she was a small business owner, co-founding several medical clinics.

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Campus Trivia Night
Which 5 countries were the largest economies in the world by nominal GDP in the year 2025

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Via the IMF by way of Wikipedia

  1. United States
  2. China
  3. Germany
  4. India
  5. Japan

In the half decade between 2020 and 2025, the both Germany and India surpassed Japan to become the world’s third and forth largest economies in the world respectively as measured by nominal GDP in $US as estimated by the International Monetary Fund. India’s entry into list of world’s five largest economies pushed the United Kingdom off the list.

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