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    Scenario 4: The Evolution of Privacy, Identity, and Forgiveness

    Prediction and Reactions PREDICTION:  Transparency heightens individual integrity and forgiveness. In 2020, people are even more open to sharing personal information, opinions, and emotions than they are now. The public’s notion of privacy has changed. People are generally comfortable exchanging the benefits of anonymity for the benefits they perceive in the data being shared by […]

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    Acknowledgements

    The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of all the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Pew Research Center staff members who generously assisted with editing and feedback throughout the writing of this report. We would also like to extend a special thanks to Barry Wellman and Wenhong Chen who were both instrumental […]

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    V. Economic Characteristics

    Hispanic students enrolled in public schools are more likely than their non-Hispanic counterparts to reside in households at or below the poverty level,[11. numoffset=”11″ For detailed information on how poverty status is determined, please see http://usa.ipums.org/usa-action/variableDescription.do?mnemonic=POVERTY. Due to the way in which the IPUMS assigns poverty values, these data will differ from those that might […]

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    Post-Election Perspectives

    In remarks at a dinner at the Newseum hosted by the Roper Center, Pew Research Center President Andrew Kohut analyzed the voter preferences revealed in exit and post-election polls and their implications for the incoming administration.

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    Highly Educated Hindus

    Nearly half (48%) of Americans of the Hindu faith have a post-graduate education.

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    Palin V.P. Nomination Puts Pentecostalism in the Spotlight

    From the time she was a teenager until 2002, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin attended a church affiliated with the Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal Christian denomination in the U.S. Pentecostalism emphasizes such practices as speaking in tongues, prophesying, divine healing and other miraculous signs of the Holy Spirit, which it believes are […]

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    Economy Tops Terrorism as a Voting Issue

    87% of registered voters now say the economy will be “very important” to their vote compared with a still high 72% of who say terrorism is a top issue for them.