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    Health News Coverage in the U.S. Media

    At a time when health care is a major public policy issue, how have the U.S. media covered the complex subject of health? A new report from PEJ and the Kaiser Family Foundation examines those questions.

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    Cars and Appointments Dominate the News

    The future of the automobile industry became a major component of the country’s ongoing economic problems last week, and speculation about Obama’s cabinet appointments reached a new level.

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    Family Web Bonding

    A quarter of online adults (23%) have used the web to search for information about their family.

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    No Fences Online

    Of adults online, 17% have searched the internet for information about their neighbors.

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    We’re Middle Class

    Roughly half of Americans describe themselves as middle class.

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    Boomers See Trouble Ahead

    Although baby boomers as a group enjoy higher median household incomes than do younger or older adults, some 55% say it is likely that their incomes will not keep up with the cost of living over the next year, a higher proportion than among either younger Americans (44%) or older ones (43%).

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    A Man’s World

    By a ratio of nearly two-to-one, Americans say that men (46%) rather than women (24%) have the better life in this country.

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    TV Still King of News

    More Americans use TV (57%) to consume news than any other media source.

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    God Gap

    There was a 24-point gap in Obama support between voters who never attend worship services and those that attend weekly.