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    The Lens (New Orleans) and WWNO Public Radio

    Any non-profit news startup (or for-profit, for that matter), faces a first-order challenge of sticking its head up and getting noticed. Put another way, the startup needs to find a spot in what is variously called the local news landscape or news ecosystem. Markets don’t come any more newsy, treacherous and competitive than New Orleans, […]

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    Appendix A: Web vs. Total Sample

    This survey was conducted using the American Trends Panel, a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. As with the American public overall, the vast majority of panel members has web access and has opted to take the surveys online. Indeed, data from the survey for the first report in this polarization series, and from […]

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    Possible Explanations for the Increase in Borrowing by Middle- and High-Income Students

    The growth in student debt among dependent college graduates has been particularly pronounced among middle- and high-income families. Explaining this distributional shift is beyond the aims of this report. However, some of the following factors might be at work: Policy changes that expanded eligibility for federal loan programs have broadened the pool of potential borrowers. […]

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    Email and the Internet Are the Dominant Technological Tools in American Workplaces

    Digital technology is ubiquitous in American workplaces. Computers have colonized substantial portions of work activities from organizing the shipment of washing machines to assisting surgeons in operating rooms. There is a drumbeat of commentary about the impact digital tools has had. Some see these tools as increasing productivity and offering more flexibility for America’s workforce; […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted October 2-5, 2014 among a national sample of 1,007  adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (501 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 506 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 288 who had no landline […]