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    Home Sweet Home. Still.

    The collapse of the U.S. housing market has not shaken the public’s confidence in the investment value of homeownership.

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    Civil War at 150: Still Relevant, Still Divisive

    Overview As the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War approaches, most Americans say the war between the North and South is still relevant to American politics and public life today. More than half of Americans (56%) say the Civil War is still relevant, according to the latest national survey by the Pew […]

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    Overview of findings As online college courses have become increasingly prevalent, the general public and college presidents offer different assessments of their educational value. Just three-in-ten American adults (29%) say a course taken online provides an equal educational value to one taken in a classroom. By contrast, fully half of college presidents (51%) say online […]

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    Section 1: The Political Typology

    The 2011 Political Typology is the fifth of its kind, following on previous studies in 1987, 1994, 1999 and 2005. The events of the past six years have resulted in a substantial shift in the political landscape, producing new alignments within each of the two parties and in the middle. In particular, views about the […]

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    How Americans used the internet in campaign 2010

    Online political videos In the months leading up to the November elections, 31% of adult internet users went online the watch videos about the candidates or the campaign.  This represents a 63% increase from the 19% of online adults who watched political videos in the previous off-year elections in 2006. Both Democratic and Republican voters […]

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    Latinos and Digital Technology, 2010

    Latinos are less likely than whites to access the internet, have a home broadband connection or own a cell phone, according to survey findings from the Pew Hispanic Center.

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    VI. Cell Phone Activities

    Cell phones are not just for talking any more. Users can engage in a wide variety of non-voice data applications using these mobile devices, and more than half of Latinos, blacks and whites reported doing so in 2010. Some 58% of Hispanics say that they use their cell phones to do at least one of […]

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    III. Home Internet Use

    More than half (55%) of all Hispanics report that they use the internet in their home. This is similar to the rate for blacks (58%), but significantly lower than the rate for whites (75%). Differences in internet use explain some, but not all, of the variation between whites and Hispanics in the likelihood of home […]

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    II. The Impact of Home Values on Personal Finances and Outlook

    While the job losses associated with the Great Recession of 2007-2009 hit those at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder particularly hard, the drop in home prices has been felt across the board, according to the Pew Research survey.[4. numoffset=”4″ For further analysis the impact of the recession, see “How the Great Recession Has […]