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    Gay rights in Russia and the former Soviet republics

    The upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi have cast a spotlight on a recently-enacted Russian law banning the distribution of gay “propaganda” to minors. However, among the 15 countries that used to comprise the Soviet Union, Russia is not the only state to restrict LGBT rights.

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    Latino Jobs Growth Driven by U.S. Born

    For the first time in nearly two decades, immigrants do not account for the majority of Hispanic workers in the United States. And most of the job gains made by Hispanics during the economic recovery have gone to U.S.-born workers.

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    Appendix B: Data Sources

    Government Data Most of the analysis in Chapter 1 is based on the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is collected monthly by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The survey is the basis for the widely reported monthly national unemployment rate. This report uses the CPS’s Annual Social and Economic […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted February 6-9, 2014 among a national sample of 1,004 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in the continental United States (502 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 502 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 273 who had no landline […]

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    Appendix A: Data Sources

    Most of the analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted Feb. 14-23, 2014 among a national sample of 1,821 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, including an oversample of young adults ages 18 to 33 (481 respondents were interviewed on […]

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    Why it’s Great to Be the Boss

    America’s bosses are more satisfied with their family life, jobs and overall financial situation than are non-managerial employees. Bosses are also significantly more likely than workers to think of their job as a career rather than just a job to get them by.

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    Chapter 4: Men and Women at Work

    About one-in-seven adults—14%—who have ever been employed say they have been the victim of gender discrimination on the job at some point in their working lives, the Pew Research survey found. Women, Baby Boomers and blacks are more likely than men, Millennials and whites or Hispanics to say they have been the victims of job-related […]