Americans Predict Life in 2050

Americans Predict Life in 2050

A week ago, the Pew Research Center for People and the Press released a poll asking Americans to predict life in 2050. The results reveled...

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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE VACANT

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE VACANT

Nobody’s home in 1 out of 3 city lots, but most houses OK, survey finds. John Gallagher from Detroit Free Press reports that a recent landma...

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Leading the Census-Participation Pack. Livonia, Michighan, had the highest census participation rate...

Leading the Census-Participation Pack. Livonia, Michighan, had the highest census participation rate...

"Livonia, Michigan, had the highest census participation rate not because of what it did – but because of what it is." How, you a...

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Census Shows Growing Diversity in New York City

Census Shows Growing Diversity in New York City

Sam Roberts from New York Times reports on various striking trends (young population growth, poverty rates and median household income are a...

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Where Megachurches Are Concentrated

Where Megachurches Are Concentrated

A New York Times article reports that there are more than 1,300 megachurches in the U.S., according to a recent survey. Some of the megach...

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Population Shows a Racial Shift

In another sign of the increasing diversity of suburbs, the New York Times now reports that "Two large suburban counties flipped from...

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Census 2000 Foreign-Born Population Map Series by Selected Countries of Birth

Census 2000 Foreign-Born Population Map Series by Selected Countries of Birth

Maps and mapping resources found on the Census Bureau's web site. State level maps indicating percent distributions and some detailed...

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One-in-Five Childless in 40s

One-in-Five Childless in 40s

According to a new Pew report based on the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey , nearly one-in-five American women between forty ...

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Census data aid disease simulation studies

Census data aid disease simulation studies

"Did you know that filling out your census card will help computer scientists model how diseases spread in the United States? " Th...

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Africa Faces Mixed Progress, Daunting Challenges, in Improving Population Well-Being

Africa Faces Mixed Progress, Daunting Challenges, in Improving Population Well-Being

Population Reference Bureau (PRB) reports that even as African women use family planning more and bear fewer children, the continent's ...

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Population Reference Bureau Report Examines U.S. Economic and Social Trends Since 2000

Population Reference Bureau Report Examines U.S. Economic and Social Trends Since 2000

PRB's Population Bulletin , " U.S. Economic and Social Trends Since 2000 ," by Linda A. Jacobsen and Mark Mather, is a wide-r...

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The Enduring Impact of the U.S. Baby Boom on Race and Ethnicity

The Enduring Impact of the U.S. Baby Boom on Race and Ethnicity

Mark Mather explores the enduring impact of the U.S. Baby Boom on Race and Ethnicity . According to new population estimates from the Cens...

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Interracial/Interethnic Marriages at all Time High

Interracial/Interethnic Marriages at all Time High

The Pew Research Center has released a report on the rate of interracial and interethnic marriages. Socially taboo and even illegal not long...

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Population Estimates Out

Population Estimates Out

The 2009 population estimates for America's largest cities are out today. As has long been the case, New York is America's largest c...

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Professors and Social Media

Professors and Social Media

Steve Kolowich fron Inside Higher Ed finds that data from a new survey suggests that 80 percent of professors, with little variance by age ...

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Higher Unemployment, Longer Unemployment

Higher Unemployment, Longer Unemployment

Using 2009 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Economic Policy Institute , the New York Times looked for a correlation between...

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Lesser Known Economic Indicators

Lesser Known Economic Indicators

MSNBC and Bloomberg analyze a host of lesser known economic indicators which suggest that the economic recovery may be stronger than expe...

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Mortgage Data Leaves Bankers Uncertain of Trend

Mortgage Data Leaves Bankers Uncertain of Trend

A New York Times article written by David Streitfeld on May 19, 2010, addresses the confounding effect of seasonal differences on Mortgage D...

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Pew Research Center's News (Political) IQ Quiz

Pew Research Center's News (Political) IQ Quiz

The Pew Research Center provides an interactive knowledge quiz, which test the public's knowledge of prominent people and major events i...

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How much of the time do you think you can trust the government in Washington to do what is right?

How much of the time do you think you can trust the government in Washington to do what is right?

Pew Research Center for the People & Press offers an interactive graphic feature that displays public trust in government based on sever...

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Encouraging Trends in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Encouraging Trends in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan

In an unusually formatted New York Times op-ed entitled The States of War , Ian Livingston, Heather Messera, and Michael O'Hanlon , a...

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