Youth Vote Undergoes Big Racial, Ethnic Changes
Just 58% of voters 18-29 identified as white non-Hispanics in 2012, compared to 74% in 2000.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Just 58% of voters 18-29 identified as white non-Hispanics in 2012, compared to 74% in 2000.
One-third of adults ages 25 to 29 have earned at least a bachelor’s degree, representing a sharp rise in college completion.
About six-in-ten disagree with the idea that “we should make every possible effort to improve the position of blacks and other minorities, even if it means giving them preferential treatment.”
Most middle class Americans say it is more difficult today than 10 years ago for those in the middle class to maintain their standard of living.
The Great Recession seems to have accelerated the tendency of today’s young adults – sometimes labeled the “boomerang generation” – to move out of the family house for a time and then boomerang back.
Most Americans continue to support Arizona’s controversial immigration law, though most Hispanics disapprove of the law.
The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available government data from 2009.
Between 2008 and 2010, about one-in-five (22%) of all newlyweds in Western states married someone of a different race or ethnicity.
More than three-in-ten (31%) military women are black. This is almost twice the share of active-duty men who are black.
The lopsided wealth ratios between whites, blacks and Hispanics are the largest since the government began publishing household wealth data a quarter century ago.
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