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    Amid Disasters, Bloggers Look to Score Some Partisan Political Points

    The blogosphere was focused on two major news events last week, the failed bombing attempt in Times Square and the spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. And in both instances, the conversation included a lot of partisan finger pointing. The oil spill was also among two of the most viewed news videos on YouTube while Twitter remained more fixated on Apple.

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    Blacks Upbeat about Black Progress, Prospects

    Assessments about the state of black progress in America have improved more dramatically among blacks during the past two years than at any time in the past quarter century.

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    Portrait of the Millennials

    At a conference at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, Pew Research Center analysts and outside experts discussed research findings about the Millennial generation, the American teens and twenty-somethings now making the passage into adulthood. This first of three sessions provided a broad overview of the Millennial generation, examining their demographics, values, attitudes and behaviors, and discussing the results of the new study.

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    Majority Continues to Support Civil Unions

    Overview A clear majority of Americans (57%) favors allowing gay and lesbian couples to enter into legal agreements with each other that would give them many of the same rights as married couples, a status commonly known as civil unions. This finding marks a slight uptick in support for civil unions and appears to continue […]

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    Majority Continues To Support Civil Unions

    A clear majority of Americans (57%) favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to enter into legal agreements with each other that would give them many of the same rights as married couples, a status commonly known as civil unions. This finding marks a slight uptick in support for civil unions and appears to continue a […]

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    Bar Tab Recession

    Four-in-ten young adults say they have cut back spending on alcohol or cigarettes as a result of the recession.

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    Recession Pounds States’ Budgets

    Stateline.org’s legislative review finds state budgets in such dire straits that they are closing prisons in Colorado and Kansas, raising taxes on the rich in New York and even taxing bourbon in Kentucky — and the worst is yet to come.

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    III. Belt-Tightening in Bad Times

    To measure the various ways Americans are coping with the ailing economy, the survey asked respondents if they had done any of nine specific things to economize “because of the economic recession.” The items covered a range of cost-cutting measures, including buying less expensive brands or doing more shopping at discount stores, moving in with […]

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    Gen Next Squeezed By Recession, But Most See Better Times Ahead

    While the economic downturn is falling quite heavily on younger Americans, their overall outlook remains optimistic. A new survey also finds Generation Next expressing more liberal views when compared with older age cohorts as well as evidence of increased political engagement.