A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.

Politics Poll: Obama approval, minimum wage, jobless benefits, Quinnipiac “National thermometer” for 2016 presidential contenders available 12 PM, Quinnipiac American politics more competitive than ever, making partisanship worse, The Washington Post Are red or blue companies more likely to go green? Harvard Business Review Great news for Obamacare: Americans are bored with it, The Washington Post

Economics Which economies will grow fastest in 2014? The Economist Interactive: The future of coal, The Wall Street Journal Post-crash rebound, not job growth, drove 2013 housing price gains, Trulia Per capita income by cities compared with U.S., Urbanophile Losses caused by winter storms, Insurance Information Institute Demographic snapshot of disconnected low-income men, Urban Institute U.S. payroll to population rate falls to 42.9% in December, Gallup Low-paying fields hold jobs of future, mostly, The Wall Street Journal

Science & Technology The evolution of memes on Facebook, Facebook Data Science In OECD, wireless broadband penetration has grown to 68.4%, OECD

International Meat atlas shows Latin America has become a soybean empire, Guardian Rising unemployment for UK’s ethnic minorities: Who’s affected? Guardian China’s verified GDP in 2012, Dec. 2013 PPI and CPI, National Bureau of Statistics of China OECD annual inflation picks up to 1.5% in November 2013, OECD

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