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    Behind Gay Marriage Momentum, Regional Gaps Persist

    Supporters of same-sex marriage won key victories in several states Tuesday, including the first instances in which laws allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally were approved by voters. This comes at a time when support for same-sex marriage has been on the rise. Across four Pew Research Center surveys this year, 48% of Americans […]

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    Age

    Three-quarters (76%) of all births in the U.S. in 2010 were to women ages 20 to 34. The share was similar for both U.S.-born women and foreign-born women, and for the major racial and ethnic groups. However, there are some other notable differences by nativity among younger and older age groups. This pattern plays out […]

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    How the Faithful Voted: 2012 Preliminary Analysis

    Obama’s margin of victory in the 2012 popular vote was smaller than in 2008. But the religious contours of the electorate were similar to recent elections – traditionally Republican groups such as white evangelicals and weekly churchgoers strongly backed Romney, while traditionally Democratic groups such as black Protestants, Hispanic Catholics, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated backed Obama by large margins.

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    A Milestone En Route to a Majority Minority Nation

    The minority groups that carried President Obama to victory yesterday by giving him 80% of their votes are on track to become a majority of the nation’s population by 2050, according to projections by the Pew Research Center. They currently make up 37% of the population, and they cast a record 28% of the votes […]

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    IV. Changing Economic Condition of Latinos

    The employment situation of Latinos has improved since the end of the Great Recession in June 2009. The Hispanic unemployment rate declined from 12.7% in the third quarter of 2009 to 9.9% in the third quarter of 2012. Declines have occurred for whites and blacks as well. Poverty rates for Latinos have also declined recently. […]

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    Section 2: Bachelor’s Degree Completion Among Young Adults

    Completion of four-year college degrees is up sharply in the past five years among the nation’s young adults. In 2012 a record one-third of adults ages 25 to 29 have attained at least a bachelor’s degree. As recently as 2006 fewer than 30% of 25- to 29-year-olds had finished at least a bachelor’s degree. Record […]

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    Data Sets Except where noted, data regarding births are obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) using the VitalStats tabulation tool available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/vitalstats.htm. These vital statistics data reflect information extracted from completed birth certificates for live births, which include the mother’s characteristics at the time of the birth. These tabulations are based […]