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    Chapter 2: Intermarriage and Other Demographics

    The survey suggests that intermarriage is common among Jews; 44% of all currently married Jewish respondents – and 58% of those who have married since 2005 – indicate they are married to a non-Jewish spouse. The survey also shows that in some important respects, U.S. Jews have a distinctive demographic profile: They are older than […]

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    Just what is the median age of the Senate, anyway?

    Liz Cheney’s decision to challenge Sen. Mike Enzi for re-election sets up a primary contest where the main difference appears to be generational, not ideological: Cheney, the 46-year-old daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, and Enzi, Wyoming’s 69-year-old third-term senior senator, both are conservative Republicans. “I think that part of the problem in Washington […]

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    IV. Watching, Reading and Listening to the News

    Among all news media, television continues to be the number one news platform for Latinos. According to the Pew Hispanic Center survey, in 2012, 86% of Latino adults say they get their news on a typical weekday from network, cable or local television news, down slightly from 2006 when 92% said they got their news […]

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    A Growing Share of Latinos Get Their News in English

    The language of news media consumption is changing for Hispanics: a growing share of Latino adults are consuming news in English from television, print, radio and internet outlets, and a declining share are doing so in Spanish, according to survey findings from the Pew Research Center.

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    Long-Term Changes in Young Adult Living Arrangements

    Since 2007, young adults have grown increasingly likely to live at home. This is a new trend. From 1981 (31%) until 2007 (32%), the share of young adults living with a parent remained largely unchanged.[6. numoffset=”6″ March 1981 is comparable to March 2007 in that both surveys occurred close to business cycle peaks.] In 1968 […]

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    The disappearing male worker

    Are men losing interest in work? Male labor force participation rates in the United States have been in steady decline since at least 1950 while women’s labor market participation steadily rose before leveling off about a decade ago. Two recent analyses of U.S. Census data document this trend and offer some unexpected reasons why this […]