Catherine Rampell at the New York Times Economix blog writes that corporate profits are "booming" -- and by some respects she is ...
Americans' support for stricter gun control laws continues to erode, according to Gallup's annual Crime Poll, conducted October 7-1...
"Subprime Opportunity," a report by the Education Trust, a nonprofit research and advocacy group, claimed that the main contrib...
According to a report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday, over the past 12 months the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Co...
Analysis of Gallup's annual Health and Healthcare survey revealed that Americans remain satisfied with the quality of their healthcare...
A New York Times article recently reported the rising influence of the GOP in the Midwest and Southern regions. The 2010 midterm elections c...
Dr. Andrew Carroll, a pediatrician at the University of Indiana, posted on a small health-care blog called the "Incremental Economist&q...
An early October Gallup poll suggests that two-thirds of Americans believe there is more crime in the United States than a year ago and nea...
The results of a series of tests known as the The National Assessment of Educational Progress published today suggest that average reading ...
The US government is projected to be $418 billion dollars in the red by 2015. This number seems daunting (and indeed economists suggest a...
Nearly 300 people participated in ICPSR’s Virtual Data Fair from Nov. 8-11. Topics covered in the webinars included data management plans, s...
Despite the fact that the debate in the scientific community has been settled for several years, just 34% of Americans now believe there is ...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that there were 2.9 million job openings on the last business day of September. The num...
Despite slogans from the populist movements on the right calling on voters to "throw the bums out," that is to say, to defeat all ...
An article in the Associated Press lists the percentages of unwed mothers with demographics separated along color lines and generated from 2...
A recent Gallup survey conducted November 4-7 showed that Americans' approval of Congress fell to 17%, down from 21% prior to the midt...
The New York Times reports that China's trade surplus in the month of October totaled $27.1 billion, far outpacing its surplus of $16....
Last week's elections received the most press for the fact that Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, but those majo...
After the second consecutive election in which the incumbent party has been at least partially booted from power over sluggish growth in emp...
A recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinal article lamented an undesirable ranking of the newspaper's home city. Milwaukee has moved up seven s...
Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 151,000 in the month of October but the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6%, according to a...
Although their sweeping electoral gains would appear to suggest otherwise, the GOP was viewed in a negative light among a majority of voters...
Tuesday night was a bad night for Democrats who lost several governorships, several state legislatures, six (and maybe seven) senators, and ...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that unemployment rates in September of this year were lower than a year earlier in ...
In the 2008 election, young people aged 18-29 voted overwhelmingly Democratic. The gap between Democratic candidates and Republican candida...
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