2012 Teen Birth Rate Lowest in Seventy Years

2012 Teen Birth Rate Lowest in Seventy Years

The latest vital statistics available from the the Center for Disease Control's National Center for Health Statistics show that the tee...

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Homicide in Global Perspective: the Americas' Exceptionalism

Homicide in Global Perspective: the Americas' Exceptionalism

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime recently released its 2013 Global Study on Homicide: Trends, Context, Data , a very detailed a...

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Domestic Violence Trends in the US, 2003-2012

Domestic Violence Trends in the US, 2003-2012

A new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics analyzes ten years of domestic violence trends.  The report is based on data from the Nat...

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Gender and Politics: Can Women Make a Difference in the Midterm Elections?

Gender and Politics: Can Women Make a Difference in the Midterm Elections?

The results of a new Wall Street Journal/ NBC News poll, discussed in a recent Wall Street Journal article , indicate that voters' views...

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Where Do Our State and Federal Tax Dollars Go?

Where Do Our State and Federal Tax Dollars Go?

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a non-partisan think-tank working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and pu...

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How Americans Spend Their Time, in Six Charts

How Americans Spend Their Time, in Six Charts

In six charts Danielle Kurtzleben of Vox gives a glimpse of how Americans spend their time.  The charts are based on data from the Bureau o...

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After Decades of Decline, Rise in the Number of Stay-At-Home Mothers

After Decades of Decline, Rise in the Number of Stay-At-Home Mothers

A new report by the Pew Research Center shows a reversal in the long-term decline in "stay-at-home" mothers that had taken place ...

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Democrats Represent Country’s Richest, Poorest, and Most Unequal Districts

Democrats Represent Country’s Richest, Poorest, and Most Unequal Districts

Two recently published articles may help explain why Democrats are more focused on income inequality than Republicans. In the first articl...

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Race Reporting on the Census: Hispanics Don't Identify With the American Concept of Race

Race Reporting on the Census: Hispanics Don't Identify With the American Concept of Race

Census race data are used for many purposes, from enforcing civil rights laws, monitoring racial disparities in education and health, and di...

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State Actions on the Minimum Wage

State Actions on the Minimum Wage

President Obama's proposal to raise the federal minimum wage faces some push-back from the Republican-controlled House, but several stat...

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The Economics of Prostitution in Eight American Cities

The Economics of Prostitution in Eight American Cities

A new report published by the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center examines the underground commercial sex economy (UCSE) in eight m...

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The Determinants of Happiness in Four Charts

The Determinants of Happiness in Four Charts

A new paper by Milena Nikolova (Brookings Institution) and Carol Graham (University of Maryland) examines the relationships between well-be...

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