US Scores Low in Children's Well-Being

US Scores Low in Children's Well-Being

Results from a 2012 Gallup poll surveying 29 wealthy nations show that the US ranks low on measures of children's well-being, with 80 p...

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Social Media and the State of the Union Address

Social Media and the State of the Union Address

Designer Nicolas Belmonte and former Datablog editor Simon Rogers, of Twitter's Data team, created an interactive data visualization too...

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Americans' Views of State of the Country

Americans' Views of State of the Country

The most recent Gallup annual Mood of the Nation poll  (conducted January 2014) asked Americans to rate the present standing of the U.S. usi...

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ICPSR's Student Paper Competition Deadline Fast Approaching!

There is still time to submit papers to ICPSR's four student research paper competitions highlighting exemplary research papers based o...

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The Myth of the Polarization of the American Electorate

The Myth of the Polarization of the American Electorate

In their recent Washington Post article, Morris P. Fiorina of Stanford University and Samuel Abrams of Sarah Lawrence College discuss the wi...

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Can Conservative Protestantism Explain Regional Variations in Divorce Rates?

Can Conservative Protestantism Explain Regional Variations in Divorce Rates?

In an article to be published this month in the American Journal of Sociology , demographers Jennifer Glass (University of Texas) and Philip...

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The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

As reported in a  New York Times article , sign-ups for Medicaid, the federal insurance program for the poor, have surged in many states as ...

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King's Dream, 50 Years Later

King's Dream, 50 Years Later

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that racism continues to impede Blacks' economic progress.  The report, " King’s D...

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Evaluating Polling Methods and Results: A Lesson Plan

Evaluating Polling Methods and Results: A Lesson Plan

Do you want to teach your students about polling methods and associated concepts (reliability, generalizability, sampling error)?  The New Y...

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Job Opportunities: Undergraduate Quantitative Social Science Training in the UK

Do you want to be at the forefront of undergraduate quantitative social science training in the UK? Over the next two years, fifteen univer...

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Inequality: What's In A Name?

Inequality: What's In A Name?

A factsheet recently published by the Pew Research Center describes "The Many Ways to Measure Economic Inequality."  There are mul...

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The New Face of Poverty

The New Face of Poverty

Fifty years after President Johnson enacted a set of social programs that came to be known as the "War on Poverty," the face of po...

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The "Fresh Start" Effect

The "Fresh Start" Effect

In a new article to be published in the journal Management Science , Hengchen Dai, Katherine Milkman, and Jason Riis of the University of Pe...

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