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    Continued Majority Support for Death Penalty

    Overview Public opinion about the death penalty has changed only modestly in recent years, but there continues to be far less support for the death penalty than there was in the mid-1990s. A survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, conducted […]

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    Social Media Share a History Lesson

    Last week, bloggers circulated a letter written more than a century ago from a former slave. Some in social media were able to use publicly available information on the web to investigate the veracity of the letter. On YouTube, three different videos featuring Russians became a news phenomenon.

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    Appendix B: Methodology

    Population data from the American Community Survey (ACS) are tied to the Census Bureau’s official population estimates through a weighting process that is designed so the ACS figures agree with pre-specified population totals by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin for the nation and smaller geographic areas (Census Bureau, 2009). The ACS data also agree […]

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    Chapter 4: Asset Ownership

    The most ubiquitous assets in American households are owned homes, motor vehicles and interest-earning assets at financial institutions (savings accounts, etc.). About half of all households also carry some form of unsecured liability. The combination of relatively high ownership rates and high levels of equity places an owned home at the center of most household […]

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    A Snapshot of Active Duty Women

    The numbers of women on active duty in the military have risen dramatically since the beginning of the all-volunteer force. The number serving as enlisted personnel has grown from 42,278 in 1973 to 166,729 in 2010, and the number serving as commissioned officers has increased from 12,750 to 35,341 over that same period. At the […]

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    Haiti text donors and their experiences giving to earthquake relief

    Most Haiti text donors in this sample were first-time mobile givers who contributed to earthquake relief only via text message Most of the Haiti text donors we surveyed were introduced to text giving by the Haiti disaster—three quarters (74%) say that their donation to Haiti earthquake relief was the first time they had used their […]

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    III. Latinos and Homeownership

    During the housing boom of the last two decades, homeownership rates increased to record levels (Kochhar, Gonzalez-Barrera and Dockterman, 2009). However, since then, the collapse in the housing market has brought declining homeownership rates and falling housing prices. For Latinos, after reaching a record high of 49.8% in 2006, the homeownership rate fell to 47.4% […]

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    Social Media Win a Big One in Washington

    Legislation aimed at combating online piracy drew the universal ire of social media users last week as a large January 18 protest put pressure on Congress to oppose the bills. And in what many observers called an unprecedented event, the online resistance actually forced the legislators into retreat last week.

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