Alaska, the Least ‘Sticky’ State
Just 28% of adults born in Alaska still live there, placing it last among the 50 states on this measure of population “stickiness.”
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Economy Shares Headlines with Pirates, Tea Parties and Waterboarding
In another week with a mixed news agenda, the media provided some cautiously optimistic assessments of the troubled economy and offered some strikingly different treatment of the tax day tea party protests.
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The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life to Release New Poll on Changes in Religious Affiliation in the U.S.
Study details patterns and reasons for changes Washington, D.C.—In a noon EDT conference call for journalists on Monday, April 27, 2009, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life will release a new survey that documents the fluidity of religious affiliation in the U.S. and describes in detail the patterns and major reasons […]
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Same-Sex Marriage Dominates Conversation in the Blogosphere
The online community was focused on two subjects that received little attention in the mainstream press last week—the debate over gay marriage and the death of a man at the G20 Summit.
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Religious Groups’ Views on Global Warming
Earth Day takes place on April 22 each year. One issue at the center of public discussions about the environment is global warming: whether it is occurring and what its causes might be. An analysis by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life of a 2008 survey conducted by the Pew Research […]
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Religious Groups’ Views on Global Warming
The unaffiliated (58%) are the most likely to say there is solid evidence the earth is warming because of human activity while white evangelical Protestants (34%) are the least likely to believe in man-made global warming.
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Mexican Immigrants in the United States, 2008
This statistical profile describes the demographic, employment and income characteristics of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. using data from the March 2008 Current Population Survey.