Median Weekly Earnings by Age, Race and Ethnicity, Sex

Median Weekly Earnings by Age, Race and Ethnicity, Sex

The Editor's Desk, a publication from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), summarized a report on weekly earnings of wage and ...

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Economic Desperation Breeding More Ponzi Schemes?

Economic Desperation Breeding More Ponzi Schemes?

The Economist 's daily chart highlights the growing number of exposed--and investigated--Ponzi and fraud schemes in the U.S., and the ...

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Debunking Myths About Food Stamps

In a recent article , the Chicago Tribune aimed to debunk popular misconceptions about trends in welfare spending and the welfare recipient...

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Cultural Inequality in the U.S.

Cultural Inequality in the U.S.

In a recent Wall Street Journal article , Charles Murray discusses the emergence of what he refers to as “cultural inequality” in the U.S. s...

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Last call for ICPSR Research Paper Competition entries!

The deadline for the ICPSR Research Paper Competition for undergraduate and graduate students is this coming Tuesday, January 31. For prizes...

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Causes of Stress in Regions of the U.S.

Causes of Stress in Regions of the U.S.

The American Psychological Association recently released the 2011 results of their annual nationwide survey, “Stress in America.”  One por...

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U.S. Projected to Decrease Foreign Oil Dependence

U.S. Projected to Decrease Foreign Oil Dependence

On Monday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration released the Annual Energy Outlook 2012 Early Release .   This report provides p...

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U.S. is Now a Net Exporter of Oil

U.S. is Now a Net Exporter of Oil

Bloomberg reports that the U.S. now exports more oil products than it imports.  During 2011, America’s exports of gasoline, diesel fuel, ...

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A Look at the Top 1% Shows Shift to Finance, Stability Within its Ranks and High Political Engagement

A Look at the Top 1% Shows Shift to Finance, Stability Within its Ranks and High Political Engagement

The Economist took a look at the top one percent and "the changing complexion of America’s rich." It highlighted Mitt Romney as ...

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Negative Press Coverage Plagues Front-Runner Romney

Negative Press Coverage Plagues Front-Runner Romney

According to the Pew Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism , Mitt Romney is receiving more negative press coverage than at any o...

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New Paper Finds Global Abortion Rate Stalling

New Paper Finds Global Abortion Rate Stalling

The Economist 's daily chart yesterday focused on a recent paper from The Lancet that "estimate[s] the number of safe and unsaf...

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Gingrich Surging in South Carolina

Gingrich Surging in South Carolina

Nate Silver unequivocally answers a question he posed yesterday --does Newt Gingrich have momentum in South Carolina?--in his FiveThirtyEigh...

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Compared With OECD Countries, Latin America Trails in Effort to Reduce Poverty, Inequality

Compared With OECD Countries, Latin America Trails in Effort to Reduce Poverty, Inequality

The Economist recently summarized a report by the OECD which supports findings that "compared with rich countries, Latin American cou...

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For First Time, China's Urban Residents Outnumber Rural

For First Time, China's Urban Residents Outnumber Rural

The Economist 's daily chart focuses on the movement of China's people into urban areas. At the end of 2011, and according to data ...

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Fed Apparently Blindsided By Financial Crisis

Fed Apparently Blindsided By Financial Crisis

A recent Wall Street Journal article discusses documents released Thursday that contain transcripts from closed-door Fed meetings during...

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Deadline alert for ICPSR Research Paper Competition

Two weeks from today, January 31, is the last day that entries into the ICPSR Research Paper Competition for undergraduate and graduate stu...

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3.2 Million Job Openings in November

3.2 Million Job Openings in November

A report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that there were 3.2 million job openings in November, unchanged from October....

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Early Polls Show Romney's Lead in South Carolina Shrinking

Early Polls Show Romney's Lead in South Carolina Shrinking

Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight blog writes that the first South Carolina GOP primary poll contradicts his earlier prediction that Mitt ...

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Data in Review: The Price of Movie Tickets

Data in Review: The Price of Movie Tickets

Why do all movie tickets cost the same?  Movie tickets don't fluctuate in price according to supply and demand. Blockbuster sellouts an...

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Obama Loses Latino Approval with Rise in Deportations

Obama Loses Latino Approval with Rise in Deportations

The majority of Latinos in the United States oppose the way in which the Obama administration is addressing the deportation of illegal immig...

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Countries Compared on Nuclear Security

Countries Compared on Nuclear Security

The Economist ranked 32 countries according to  nuclear security, measured by their ability to safely contain nuclear material which ...

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Ranking Countries by Misery Index

Ranking Countries by Misery Index

On Monday, The Economist published their 2011 " Misery Index ", which is determined by a given country's rate of unempl...

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Record-High Percentage of American Independents

Record-High Percentage of American Independents

Gallup’s party identification poll found that the percentage of American identifying as independents hit a record high in 2011.  Gall...

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New Study Shows Teachers--and Test Scores--Matter in the Long-Term

New Study Shows Teachers--and Test Scores--Matter in the Long-Term

A new study by three economists suggests that elementary- and middle-school teachers who help increase their students' standardized-tes...

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Student Paper Competition deadline approaching

There's still time! Deadline for ICPSR's student paper competitions is January 31, 2012: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ icpsrweb/cont...

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Obama Starts New Year with 46% Job Approval

Obama Starts New Year with 46% Job Approval

Gallup polling in early January finds that President Obama's job approval rating is at 46 percent, an improvement over most data since ...

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