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    Other Resounding Themes

    It is striking that many in both groups see living a public life online as the new default, though they often made different arguments about whether this would be helpful to creating a widely accepted regime of privacy or a harmful development that would lead to the unstoppable erosion of privacy. Beyond the broad thoughts […]

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    Chapter 1: Education and Economic Outcomes Among the Young

    As college costs have increased in recent decades, so, too, have many of the economic rewards for getting a four-year degree as well as the penalties for not doing so, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. The analysis, which focuses on young adults in the first phase of […]

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    Appendix C: Methodology

    Overview The estimates presented in this report for the unauthorized immigrant population are based on a residual estimation methodology that compares a demographic estimate of the number of immigrants residing legally in the country with the total number of immigrants as measured by a survey—either the American Community Survey or the March Supplement to the […]

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    Section 8: Health Care, Marijuana, Common Core, Other Domestic Issues

    The Affordable Care Act has been one of the most divisive issues of Barack Obama’s presidency. The new typology finds nearly universal opposition to the law on the right. By contrast, support for the law on the left is not nearly as widespread or intense. Overall, more disapprove (53%) than approve (41%) of the health […]

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    Section 2: A Demographic Profile of Young Student Debtors

    Among all households with heads younger than 40, 37% had outstanding student loans in 2010. Student debtor households tend to be younger. Among households in which the household head is younger than 25, 43% have outstanding student loan debt. Some 39% of households in which the household head is between the ages of 25 and […]

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    Growing Number of Dads Home with the Kids

    The number of fathers who do not work outside the home has nearly doubled since 1989, rising markedly in recent years. And more of these “stay-at-home” dads say they’re home primarily to care for family.

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    Elaborations: More Expert Responses

    Respondents in this canvassing note that the online environment is going through considerable change as it evolves technologically and politically. Some point out there is a constant swing between distributed activity that is built on citizen enthusiasm about the unhindered sharing of ideas and the type of central control characterized by restrictions on the exchange […]