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    Call Births to Unwed Mothers a Big Problem

    That’s the number of U.S. adults who say that the growing number of children in this country born to unmarried mothers is a “big problem,” although there is little agreement on the primary cause of the problem.

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    Working Moms: Good or Bad for Society?

    That’s the plurality of at-home moms who consider the increase in working mothers bad for society; some 34% of working moms agree.

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    Optimists About Housing Prices

    As recently as June, more than six-in-ten Americans (62%) still expected U.S. housing prices to continue to rise.

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    Anti-War Sentiment Dominates Talk Airwaves

    It’s been a while since the debate over Iraq policy was the nation’s top talk show topic. But the Iraq doubters drove the suddenly re-ignited conversation on the airwaves last week. Meanwhile, the strange saga of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and his dog fighting operation proved a difficult topic to tackle.

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    Black Enthusiasm for Clinton and Obama Leaves Little Room for Edwards

    The exceptionally strong support for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama among black voters (and, for Clinton, among liberal Democratic and lower-income white voters as well), may help explain the relatively limited appeal of presidential hopeful John Edwards, whose populist platform has not translated so far into support from these key segments of the Democratic […]

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    States Seek to Dampen Text Book Sticker Shock

    Returning college students may get some pocketbook relief at campus bookstores as states and university officials take aim at some publisher and faculty practices blamed for raising prices.

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    Along the Iraq-Vietnam Parallel

    To many observers the most obvious parallel between the two conflicts is that, after early public support, disillusionment mounted as hostilities dragged on. But while the overall trajectory is similar, an important political difference distinguishes public attitudes toward the two wars.