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    Trading Away U.S. Jobs

    By a margin of more than six-to-one (61% to 9%), the U.S. public now says free trade agreements result in job losses rather than in the creation of new jobs.

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    Black-White Income Gap

    That’s the proportion of African Americans who say that the income gap between whites and blacks has widened over the last decade.

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    Feeling Guilty

    Most Americans say they’re not saving as much as they should — but they’re apparently not worried enough to do much about it.

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    Oh Say, Is that Star-Spangled Banner Made in the U.S.A.?

    It was seeing foreign-made American flags at a veteran’s memorial ceremony that inspired a West Virginia legislator to proposed a bill requiring that all flags purchased with state funds be made in America. He’s not alone.

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    The Widening Gap

    While Barack Obama’s appeal to the young coincides with their increasing Democratic alignment, older voters do not show the greater allegiance to the GOP that might explain their relative reluctance to support him.

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    Mom’s Toughest Critics

    Two of every three women ages 50-64 say today’s mothers are doing a worse job as parents than mothers did 20 or 30 years ago — the highest level of criticism among any age-sex group in the US population.

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    The Race Factor Redux

    While the outcome of the North Carolina primary fit into a racial pattern observed in earlier primaries this year, Clinton’s showing in Indiana was less strong than would have been expected.

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    Hard Hats See Hard Times

    While the latest statistics reported fewer job losses than analysts expected, the public is expressing increasing concern about job availability; but unlike in the 1992 downturn, such worries are concentrated in the lower portions of the income spectrum.

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