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short readsApr 21, 2009

Losing Journalists

The Project for Excellence in Journalism estimates that one out of every five journalists working for newspapers in 2001 no longer does so.
short readsApr 21, 2009

Econ 101

More Americans know the unemployment rate than the level of the Dow.
short readsApr 21, 2009

Younger People Less Knowledgeable

On a 12-question news quiz, young adults answered fewer than half correctly on average.
short readsApr 21, 2009

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.”
reportApr 21, 2009

GOP Party Identification Slips Nationwide and in Pennsylvania

The Republican Party has continued to lose adherents in 2009. In combined surveys since the start of the year, fewer than a quarter (23%) of Americans identify as Republicans. In total, the GOP has lost roughly a quarter of its base over the past five years. But these losses have not translated into substantial Democratic gains.
reportApr 20, 2009

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.
reportApr 20, 2009

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 […]
reportApr 17, 2009

Participatory Democracy, Participatory Medicine

New survey data shows that not only is there a participatory class of citizen, but there is a participatory class of patient.
reportApr 16, 2009

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.
reportApr 16, 2009

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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Losing Journalists

Econ 101

Younger People Less Knowledgeable

Alaska, the Least ‘Sticky’ State

GOP Party Identification Slips Nationwide and in Pennsylvania

Economy Shares Headlines with Pirates, Tea Parties and Waterboarding

The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life to Release New Poll on Changes in Religious Affiliation in the U.S.

Same-Sex Marriage Dominates Conversation in the Blogosphere

Religious Groups’ Views on Global Warming