More Need Government Aid

More Need Government Aid

In the midst of the most severe economic contraction since the inauguration of the New Deal state, it's unsurprising that a record numbe...

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Births Down for the Second Straight Year

Births Down for the Second Straight Year

Like all recessions, this one seems to have lowered birth rates in America . The birth rate in 2009 was 13.5 per 1000 people, the lowest in...

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Recovery Slowing.

Recovery Slowing.

GDP estimates for the second quarter of 2010 were revised down today from 2.4% to 1.6% annualized growth. Economists had estimated that th...

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Americans, Pew Research Unsure what to Think about Muslims

Americans, Pew Research Unsure what to Think about Muslims

A new Pew Poll reveals that Americans are conflicted on their acceptance of Islam, and the media is equally uncertain how to report the res...

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Many Polls, Few Answers on Taxes

The 2001 and 2003 tax cuts set are to expire this year and Congress sits ready to begin debating which of them to extend and which to let ex...

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30% of Chinese GDP off the Books

A new study from Credit Suisse and Beijing think-tank China Reform Foundation shows that China is richer -- and much more unequal -- than ...

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Meg Whitman's Plans Flawed?

Meg Whitman's Plans Flawed?

A group of liberal economists, unsurprisingly, have taken issue with the data used and conclusions drawn by California Republican gubernat...

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Tallying up the Costs in Iraq

Tallying up the Costs in Iraq

The Christian Science Monitor compiled numbers on the Iraq War from a variety of sources, as the United States begins to draw down combat t...

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Even Sham Accupuncture Eases Pain

A new study from the MD Anderson Cancer Center joins the substantial and conflicting literature about the efficacy of acupuncture. It sug...

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About Those Tax Cuts...

The 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts are set to expire and a debate about which if any to extend is heating up in a time amidst concerns about a ...

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Cherry Picking

Cherry Picking

Ruth Marcus, a deficit-hawk from the Washington Post's editorial page and Brian Riedl from the right-wing Heritage Foundation have accu...

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Obama, US Less Popular in Arab World

Obama, US Less Popular in Arab World

The Brookings Institution and Zogby have released a poll investigating Arab attitudes towards the United States and President Obama and th...

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New Features for the TwD Web Site

We are pleased to announce an update of the TeachingWithData.org Web site! This upgrade provides several new features: the ability to submi...

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Katherine R. Rowell

Katherine R. Rowell has practiced a "learning-by-doing" educational approach as a sociology instructor at Sinclair Community Colle...

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Better, Not Smaller

Better, Not Smaller

A poll from the center-left Center for American Progress (CAP) suggests that while American confidence in government to solve problems is a...

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Public Opinion in Pakistan

Public Opinion in Pakistan

A new poll from the Pew Global Attitudes Project offers depressing news for the West. While favorability ratings for extremist groups rema...

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