short reads | Nov 23, 2010

Free Trade Agreements Are Expensive

Only about a third of Americans say free trade agreements have been good for the U.S., the lowest level of support in 13 years of Pew Research polling.

short reads | Nov 23, 2010

Politically Apathetic Millennials

Young adults struggle with questions about politics, such as who the next speaker of the House will be.

short reads | Nov 23, 2010

Knowledge Deficit

While most Americans know the deficit is larger now than it was in the 1990s, most are not familiar with where government money goes.

short reads | Nov 23, 2010

Mobile Location Sharing

Among internet users, 4% use a service such as Foursquare or Gowalla to share their location with friends online.

short reads | Nov 23, 2010

Crowded Tables this Thanksgiving

More than six-in-ten Americans who plan to have a Thanksgiving meal with family members say that 10 or more relatives will be in attendance on Thursday.

report | Nov 22, 2010

Migration Ups and Downs

Net migration--the number of people who move into a place minus the number who move out--can reflect local economic conditions, but a new analysis of population loss in rural areas finds that other factors also can play a role.

report | Nov 22, 2010

With the Election Over, the Economy Tops the News

The state of the troubled U.S. economy, the old reliable of news stories, was the biggest topic in the news last week. But the media also focused on some new TSA screening techniques that seemed to poke and provoke some travelers. And continued coverage of the midterms focused on new power players in Washington.

report | Nov 22, 2010

The Growing Gap between Landline and Dual Frame Election Polls

A new analysis of Pew Research Center pre-election surveys conducted this year finds that support for Republican candidates was significantly higher in samples based only on landlines than in dual frame samples that combined landline and cell phone interviews. The difference in the margin among likely voters this year is about twice as large as in 2008.

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