Giving Thanks for Football
As American families gather for the Thanksgiving Holiday, many among them will be distracted by America’s favorite sport, football. A plurality of Americans (34%) rate football as their favorite sport to watch.
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As American families gather for the Thanksgiving Holiday, many among them will be distracted by America’s favorite sport, football. A plurality of Americans (34%) rate football as their favorite sport to watch.
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That’s the overall increase in Hispanic children enrolled in US public schools between 1993-94 and 2002-03.
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