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    Chapter 6: Views on the Economy and Poverty

    For more recent survey data about religion in Latin America, read our 2026 report “Catholicism Has Declined in Latin America Over the Past Decade.” On the whole, Latin Americans embrace free-market principles. Majorities in most countries surveyed say that people are better off in a free-market economy. Yet majorities in half of the countries point to the gap between […]

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    Blumberg, Stephen J. and Julian Luke. 2014. “Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2013.” Washington, D.C.: Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics. July. Gonzalez-Barrera, Ana and Jens Manuel Krogstad. 2014. “U.S. deportations of immigrants reach record high in 2013.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center. […]

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    Hoefer, Michael, Nancy Rytina and Bryan Baker. 2012. “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2011.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, March. Lopez, Mark Hugo, Paul Taylor, Cary Funk and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera. 2013. “On Immigration Policy, Deportation Relief Seen as More Important Than Citizenship.” […]

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    Social Media and the Cost of Caring

    Frequent use of social media is not directly related to higher stress. But stress can be contagious through social media channels: Social media users are often more aware of the stressful events in others’ lives, and this awareness itself can lead to higher stress.

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    I-News Network, Rocky Mountain PBS and KUSA-TV

    Laura Frank’s idea for a multimedia investigative network in Colorado was born in February 2009, the day the Rocky Mountain News closed. An experienced investigative reporter who led a small team at ‘the Rocky,’ she wanted to keep doing what she did best and also cushion the abrupt end of the paper’s contributions in Denver, […]

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    7 facts about White House press secretaries

    When Joshua Earnest formally succeeds the departing Jay Carney as President Barack Obama’s chief liaison with the media, he will become the 30th presidential press secretary since the post was created 85 years ago. Here’s a look at others who held the job.

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    References

    Akers, Beth, and Matthew M. Chingos. 2014. Is a Student Loan Crisis on the Horizon? Washington, D.C.: Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings. Bailey, Martha J., and Susan M. Dynarski. 2011. Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 17633. Baum, Sandy. 2013. The […]

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    The American Trends Panel Surveys (ATP) The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by the Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults living in households. Respondents who self-identify as internet users (representing 89% of U.S. adults) participate in the panel via monthly self-administered Web surveys, and those who do not […]

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    Americans’ Perceptions of Privacy are Varied

    The term “privacy” evokes a constellation of concepts in the minds of the American public To better understand how the public thinks about privacy, a representative sample of 607 adults were asked an open-ended question in an online survey: “When you hear the word “privacy,” what comes to mind for you?”[6. numoffset=”7″ A full discussion […]