Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Student debt has increased dramatically over the past several decades. The aggregate volume of new student borrowing has increased more than fourfold over the past 20 years. In 2012-13 students borrowed $110 billion for higher education (Baum, 2013). By comparison, students borrowed only $24 billion in 1990-91 (both figures are in 2012 dollars). One fundamental […]
Brown, Anna. 2014. “U.S. Hispanic and Asian populations growing, but for different reasons.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center. June. Brown, Anna, and Mark Hugo Lopez. 2012. “Mapping the Latino Population, By State, County and City.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center. October. Brown, Anna, and Eileen Patten. 2014. “Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, […]
Bhaskar, Renuka, Rachel Cortés, Melissa Scopilliti, Eric Jensen, Chris Dick, David Armstrong and Belkinés Arenas-Germosén. 2013. “Estimating Net International Migration for 2010 Demographic Analysis: An Overview of Methods and Results.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division Working Paper No. 97. February. Birson, Kurt. 2014. “Puerto Rican Migration and the Brain Drain Dilemma.” In Edwin […]
In 2012, a record 69% of the nation’s new college graduates had taken out student loans to finance their education. Graduates from more affluent families are much more likely to borrow today than 20 years ago.
Blumberg, Stephen J. and Julian Luke. 2014. “Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2013.” Washington, D.C.: Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics. July. Gonzalez-Barrera, Ana and Jens Manuel Krogstad. 2014. “U.S. deportations of immigrants reach record high in 2013.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center. […]
Hoefer, Michael, Nancy Rytina and Bryan Baker. 2012. “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2011.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, March. Lopez, Mark Hugo, Paul Taylor, Cary Funk and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera. 2013. “On Immigration Policy, Deportation Relief Seen as More Important Than Citizenship.” […]
A record 25.2 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2014 midterms, or 11% of eligible voters nationwide. But in many states with close races this year, Latinos make up a smaller share of eligible voters.
President Obama meets Friday with Republican leaders after their election day victories to talk about cooperation on key issues. We review the public opinion challenges facing both parties in any quest for bipartisanship.
A growing number of news companies are making plays for India’s growing digital market, with the Huffington Post being the latest entrant.
The Obama administration deported a record 438,421 unauthorized immigrants in fiscal year 2013, continuing a streak of stepped up enforcement that has resulted in 2 million deportations since Obama took office.
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