The Future of Music Policy
The Future of Music Coalition’s Policy Day brings together musicians, techies, policymakers and advocates to discuss the changing music and technology policy landscape.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Overview For the public, the continuing financial crisis has been overtaken by a jobs crisis. The proportion of Americans citing jobs or unemployment as the nation’s most important economic problem has more than quadrupled – from 10% to 42% – since early October and job worries now far surpass concerns over the financial crisis. People’s […]
Bloggers and the traditional media agreed on the two top news events last week, but with somewhat differing angles. New media users cared a lot more about nasty winter weather in other parts of the world.
Views on Democracy, Religion, Values, and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Nations
Summary of Findings As the contentious debate over President Obama’s $800 billion economic stimulus plan played out in Congress over the past week, more Americans were hearing bad things than good things about the legislation. Close to half (48%) of the public says that what they were reading and hearing about the plan in the […]