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    Number Hearing Mostly Bad Economic News Soars

    Overview Negative views of economic news have risen sharply since last month and now stand at their highest level in well more than two years. Fully 67% say they are hearing “mostly bad” news about the economy, up 18 points in the last month alone and more than 40 points since the start of 2011. […]

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    Using Census Data to Map Change

    A growing number of organizations (including the Census Bureau) are producing census-based interactive maps that allow users to choose the level of geography, topic or time period they want to display. This All Things Census posting includes links to maps using data from the 2010 Census, as well as earlier census data.

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    Lifetime Earnings of College Graduates

    A new Pew Research Center analysis, using Census Bureau data, estimates that the typical adult with a bachelor’s degree (but no further education) will earn $1.42 million over a 40-year career, compared with $770,000 for a typical high school graduate.

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    Methodology

    Topline The topline is available to download as a PDF here. You can also explore the questions online on the report overview page. Methodology (May 2011 Tracking Survey) This report is based on the findings of a survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results in this report are based on data from telephone […]

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    Chapter 1: The Macroeconomic Context

    The period of 2005 to 2009 was marked by a series of tumultuous economic developments. A bubble in the housing market burst in 2006, triggering the Great Recession in 2007 and a stock market collapse in 2007-2008. Each of these events was historic in its magnitude, and it is not surprising that household wealth would […]

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    Appendix

    Data Sources The net worth and asset ownership levels are tabulated from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation. SIPP is a longitudinal survey designed to follow a given panel of households over several years. The panels are nationally representative samples of the civilian, non-institutionalized population of the United States and are […]

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    The State of Millennials (slides)

    Lee Rainie presents a compendium of recent data that focuses on key behavioral statistics of the Millennial Generation.

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    Population Change in Europe

    A report on population change in the European Union concluded that 20 nations had population gains in 2010, while seven had population decreases. Overall, the European Union population grew by 1.4 million, to 502.5 million as of January 2011.