The Editor's Desk, a publication from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), summarized a report on weekly earnings of wage and ...
The Economist 's daily chart highlights the growing number of exposed--and investigated--Ponzi and fraud schemes in the U.S., and the ...
In a recent article , the Chicago Tribune aimed to debunk popular misconceptions about trends in welfare spending and the welfare recipient...
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...
The deadline for the ICPSR Research Paper Competition for undergraduate and graduate students is this coming Tuesday, January 31. For prizes...
The American Psychological Association recently released the 2011 results of their annual nationwide survey, “Stress in America.” One por...
On Monday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration released the Annual Energy Outlook 2012 Early Release . This report provides p...
Bloomberg reports that the U.S. now exports more oil products than it imports. During 2011, America’s exports of gasoline, diesel fuel, ...
The Economist took a look at the top one percent and "the changing complexion of America’s rich." It highlighted Mitt Romney as ...
According to the Pew Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism , Mitt Romney is receiving more negative press coverage than at any o...
The Economist 's daily chart yesterday focused on a recent paper from The Lancet that "estimate[s] the number of safe and unsaf...
Nate Silver unequivocally answers a question he posed yesterday --does Newt Gingrich have momentum in South Carolina?--in his FiveThirtyEigh...
The Economist recently summarized a report by the OECD which supports findings that "compared with rich countries, Latin American cou...
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 ...
A recent Wall Street Journal article discusses documents released Thursday that contain transcripts from closed-door Fed meetings during...
Two weeks from today, January 31, is the last day that entries into the ICPSR Research Paper Competition for undergraduate and graduate stu...
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....
Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight blog writes that the first South Carolina GOP primary poll contradicts his earlier prediction that Mitt ...
Why do all movie tickets cost the same? Movie tickets don't fluctuate in price according to supply and demand. Blockbuster sellouts an...
The majority of Latinos in the United States oppose the way in which the Obama administration is addressing the deportation of illegal immig...
The Economist ranked 32 countries according to nuclear security, measured by their ability to safely contain nuclear material which ...
On Monday, The Economist published their 2011 " Misery Index ", which is determined by a given country's rate of unempl...
Gallup’s party identification poll found that the percentage of American identifying as independents hit a record high in 2011. Gall...
A new study by three economists suggests that elementary- and middle-school teachers who help increase their students' standardized-tes...
There's still time! Deadline for ICPSR's student paper competitions is January 31, 2012: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ icpsrweb/cont...
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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