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    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.

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    Econ 101

    More Americans know the unemployment rate than the level of the Dow.

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    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.”

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    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.

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    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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    Cell-Only Youth

    About a third of Americans ages 18 to 29 have only a wireless phone.

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    God’s Gender Gap

    Women are more religious than men on a variety of measures.

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    I Want To Go Where It’s Warm

    Americans prefer a hotter place to live over one with a colder climate by nearly a two-to-one margin.

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