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    Deficit ’Super Committee’ Draws Little Attention

     Overview Few Americans (17%) paid very close attention to news about the congressional “super committee” last week as the panel approached its deadline to agree on a plan to cut federal spending and reduce the national deficit. Another 24% say they followed news about the super committee fairly closely. Most (58%) followed news about the […]

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    Cohabiting Couples and Their Money

    Money-sharing by cohabiting couples is the topic of this article, which focuses on the Census Bureau’s new alternative measure of poverty. Cohabiting couples are much less likely to be considered poor under the alternative measure than the official measure of poverty’; the major reason is that the alternative measure assumes such couples share expenses, while the official measure assumes they are separate economic units.

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    Lobbying for the Faithful

    A new report gives a brief history of organized religious advocacy in Washington, D.C., and examines the major characteristics of religion-related advocacy. A related online directory includes profiles of 216 groups currently or recently active in the nation’s capital.

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    New Pew Forum Report Analyzes Washington’s Religious Advocacy Community

    Groups collectively spend at least $390 million a year,but recession seems to have taken a toll on their budgets Washington, D.C. — The number of organizationsengaged in religious lobbying or religion-related advocacy in Washington, D.C.,has increased roughly fivefold in the past four decades, from fewer than 40 in1970 to more than 200 today, according to […]

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    Biggest Week Yet for Occupy Wall Street Coverage

    Tensions drove Occupy Wall Street coverage to its biggest week so far and an interview with Jerry Sandusky ushered in a second week of major coverage of Penn State’s sexual abuse scandal.