New Study Shows Midwesterners Really Are the Friendliest People

New Study Shows Midwesterners Really Are the Friendliest People

A new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge maps the psychological topography of the United States to find out whether region...

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Health Insurance Exchanges off to a Bumpy Start

Health Insurance Exchanges off to a Bumpy Start

A recently released report from the P ew Research Center for People and the Press  said that Americans have found that the Health Insur...

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Applications now accepted for 2014 ICPSR Summer Internship Program

Applications are being accepted for the 2014 ICPSR  Summer Undergraduate Internship Program , an intensive, 10-week program in Ann Arbor, Mi...

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Most and Least Lucrative College Majors

Most and Least Lucrative College Majors

National Public Radio's program " Planet Money " recently reported the findings of a study by Georgetown University's Cent...

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Religion Among the Millennials

Religion Among the Millennials

In a series of reports the Pew Research Center explored the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up t...

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Poor and (Still) Uninsured

Poor and (Still) Uninsured

As reported in a recent New York Times article , the healthcare reform popularly known as Obamacare that was designed to extend healthcare c...

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Changing Religious Affiliation of Hispanic Americans

Changing Religious Affiliation of Hispanic Americans

In the recently released report on from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), it was found that 69% of Hispanic Americans surv...

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Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030

Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030

In a recent report from Yahoo News , Eric Pfeiffer said that it is possible to end extreme poverty by the year 2030, according to a ...

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Present-day Slavery Worldwide

Present-day Slavery Worldwide

In a recent news article from Reuters , Belinda Goldsmith reported that nearly 30 million people worldwide are presently enslaved, acc...

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Literacy and Productivity Linked

Literacy and Productivity Linked

A recent Pew Research Center FactTank report by Drew DeSilver on the connection between the literacy rate of a country's work fo...

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American's Anti-Incumbency Mood at High Point

American's Anti-Incumbency Mood at High Point

According to a recent report from Pew Research FactTank , Bruce Drake said that 38% of Americans don't support reelecting their f...

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Uneven Recovery: Lion's Share of Income Growth Captured by Extremely Small Income Elite

Uneven Recovery: Lion's Share of Income Growth Captured by Extremely Small Income Elite

University of California-Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez recently released an updated report on his study, “Striking It Richer: The Evoluti...

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The most meaningful work is also the most tiring

The most meaningful work is also the most tiring

According to a recent report from Pew Research Social and Demographic Trends , the "most meaningful" work that Amer...

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ICPSR Announces New Student Research Paper Competition

ICPSR Announces New Student Research Paper Competition

ICPSR is pleased to announce that the National Addiction and HIV Data Archive (NAHDAP) is offering a Research Paper Competition for Un...

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American's Daily Spending Down in September

American's Daily Spending Down in September

A recent  report  from  Gallup  Economy  says that American's self-reported daily spending has dropped from $95 in August to $84 in S...

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Government Shutdown is Further Eroding Economic Confidence

Government Shutdown is Further Eroding Economic Confidence

The latest Gallup Economic Confidence Index shows that the government shutdown has caused confidence in the US economy to drop sharply.  ...

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Understanding Statistics through Dance

Understanding Statistics through Dance

                                                                        TeachingWithData.org is pleased to announce the inclusion in th...

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Alternate Data Sources during Shutdown

With the federal government shutdown limiting access to data for in-class use, we have gathered a list of alternate sources of government d...

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Government Shutdown Effect on Data Availability

Government Shutdown Effect on Data Availability

A recent  Pew Research Center   FacTank  report by Drew DeSilver  on the effect of the federal government shutdown on the flow of data h...

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Majority of Uninsured American Will Buy Insurance

Majority of Uninsured American Will Buy Insurance

In a recent  report  from  Gallup  Healthcare   by Frank Newport and Kyley McGeeney, it was found that 65% of uninsured Americans plan...

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