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    Parenting in America

    There are deep divisions among U.S. parents today rooted in economic well-being. Parents’ outlooks, worries and aspirations for their children are strongly linked to financial circumstances.

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    3. Parenting approaches and concerns

    American parents across demographic groups say being a parent is central to who they are, but the ways they approach parenting – and the concerns they have about their children – vary in some significant ways between mothers and fathers as well as across generations, and racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. For example, while similar […]

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    Chapter 5: After the Relationship: Technology and Breakups

    An In-Person Talk Is Viewed as the Most Socially Acceptable Way to End a Relationship, Followed by a Phone Call. Breaking Up With Someone Using Text Messaging or Social Media Is Largely Frowned Upon Teens have many options for how to end romantic relationships, but some ways of doing so are viewed as more socially […]

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    Appendix B: About the Data

    The data in this report are based on three independent survey administrations based on the same randomly selected, nationally representative group of respondents. The first is Pew Research Center’s largest survey on domestic politics to date: the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey, a telephone survey of just over 10,000 Americans. A subset of these […]

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    National Trends in Self-Employment and Job Creation

    The rate of self-employment in the U.S. has held remarkably steady for the past several decades. In 2014, some 10% of American workers, 14.6 million in all, were self-employed.[12. numoffset=”12″ This differs slightly from the official estimate from the BLS, which is 10.1%. The BLS estimate is an annual average based on the entire sample […]

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    Race and Ethnicity in the Local News Ecosystem

    Two of the three metropolitan areas studied here contain racial and ethnic subpopulations large enough to study on their own—in the case of Denver, those who identify as Hispanic, and in the case of Macon, those who identify as black.[26. numoffset=”26″ Sioux City contains a small but growing Hispanic community. Due to sample sizes, this […]

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    The Unique Challenges of Surveying U.S. Latinos

    Surveying Hispanics is complicated for many reasons – language barriers, sampling issues and cultural differences – that are the subject of a growing field of inquiry.

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    GOP’s Favorability Rating Takes a Negative Turn

    Survey Report The Republican Party’s image has grown more negative over the first half of this year. Currently, 32% have a favorable impression of the Republican Party, while 60% have an unfavorable view. Favorable views of the GOP have fallen nine percentage points since January. The Democratic Party continues to have mixed ratings (48% favorable, […]

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    In the news industry, diversity is lowest at smaller outlets

    Minorities are still underrepresented at U.S. news organizations, especially when it comes to the places that would-be journalists traditionally try to break into the business: smaller local TV and newspaper outlets.

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