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    Say Children Key to Marriage

    That’s the percent of Americans who now say that children are very important for a marriage to succeed, down from 65% who said so in 1990.

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    Job Finding is Hard

    That’s the number of Americans who recently said it was difficult to find a job in their community — a proportion that rises to 55% when the qualifier “good job” is added to the question.

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    Better Wages for Latino Immigrants

    That’s the proportion of foreign-born Latino workers in the lowest fifth of the wage distribution, a significant decline from the 42% who were low wage workers a decade earlier.

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    The V-Word Heats Up the Iraq Debate

    Two different destructive storms struck the continent and even in the dog days of summer, the presidential race continued to attract significant media interest. But several factors—an intelligence report, a senatorial statement, and a presidential analogy—all combined to re-ignite the debate over U.S. policy in Iraq.

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    How the Public Resolves Conflicts Between Faith and Science

    Polls show that Americans have a healthy respect for science. But what happens when scientific findings conflict with religious beliefs? In the case of evolution, religious people, who make up a majority of Americans, rely primarily on their faith for answers.

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    How the Public Resolves Conflicts Between Faith and Science

    by David Masci, Senior Research Fellow The relationship between faith and science in the United States seems, at least on the surface, to be paradoxical. Surveys repeatedly show that most Americans respect science and the benefits it brings to society, such as new technologies and medical treatments. And yet, religious convictions limit many Americans’ willingness […]

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    Online News Audience

    Pew Internet, Pew Research, and McKinsey analysts all come to similar conclusions: the online news space is active and ripe for innovation.

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    How the Public Resolves Conflicts Between Faith and Science

    Polls show that Americans have a healthy respect for science. But what happens when scientific findings conflict with religious beliefs? In the case of evolution, religious people, who make up a majority of Americans, rely primarily on their faith for answers.

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    YouTubers meeting lens to lens

    There’s a lot of ongoing discussion in the internet research world about how often relationships initiated online end up evolving into offline, in-person meetings.