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3. Sources of Remittances to Latin America
The United States is the single largest source of remittances to Spanish-speaking Latin America, accounting for $41 billion of the $52.9 billion in money sent home by migrants in 2012. Funds transferred to Latin America account for a third (33%) of remittances from the U.S., according to World Bank data analyzed by the Pew Research […]
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Obama’s Second-Term Slide Continues
Survey Report Barack Obama has had a difficult year since his reelection victory. His overall job rating stands at 41%, down 14 points since last December. A majority (53%) now disapproves of the way he is handling his job as president. The latest national poll by the Pew Research Center, conducted Oct. 30-Nov. 6 among […]
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Obama Job Rating Regains Some Ground, But 2013 Has Taken a Toll
Survey Report For the first time since last spring, Barack Obama’s steadily declining job rating has shown a modest improvement. And while his signature legislative accomplishment – the 2010 health care law – remains unpopular, Obama engenders much more public confidence on health care policy than do Republican leaders in Congress. The flawed rollout of […]
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4. Pan-Ethnicity: Shared Values among Latinos
The 2013 National Survey of Latinos explored pan-ethnicity among Latinos by asking about how much Latinos in the U.S. share values in common but also asking U.S. Latinos how much they have in common with people in the home countries of their ancestors. How Much Do U.S. Latinos Share Values? Overall, 39% of survey respondents […]
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Part 4: Social networking sites, Cell Phones, Dating, and Relationships
The technological landscape has changed dramatically since we first studied dating and relationships in the fall of 2005. At the time we conducted our first survey on this topic, the release of the iPhone was still two years in the future, Facebook was in the process of expanding from college campuses to high schools, and […]
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Section 3: Perceptions of Public Libraries
Americans’ perceptions of public libraries The vast majority of Americans ages 16 and older say that public libraries play an important role in providing free access to materials and resources, promote literacy and a love of reading, and improve the overall quality of life in a community: 95% of Americans say that “because it provides […]
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Chapter 5: Connection With and Attitudes Toward Israel
Most American Jews feel at least some emotional attachment to Israel, and many have visited the Jewish state. Four-in-ten believe Israel was given to the Jewish people by God, a belief that is held by roughly eight-in-ten Orthodox Jews. Six-in-ten U.S. Jews are optimistic that a way can be found for Israel and an independent […]
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Pew Research surveys of audience habits suggest perilous future for news
Today’s younger and middle-aged audience seems unlikely to ever match the avid news interest of the generations they will replace, even as they enthusiastically transition to the Internet as their principal source of news.
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A Rising Share of Young Adults Live in Their Parents’ Home
In 2012, 36% of the nation’s young adults ages 18 to 31—the so-called Millennial generation—were living in their parents’ home, the highest share in at least four decades. The number of young adults doing so has risen by 3 million since the start of the start of the recession in 2007, an increase driven by a combination of economic, educational and cultural factors.