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    A closer look at who did (and didn’t) pay U.S. income tax in 2015

    Taxpayers with incomes of $200,000 or more paid well over half (58.8%) of federal income taxes, though they accounted for only 4.5% of all returns filed (6.8% of all taxable returns). By contrast, taxpayers with incomes below $30,000 filed nearly 44% of all returns but paid just 1.4% of all federal income tax.

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    Theme 1: The training ecosystem will evolve, with a mix of innovation in all education formats

    To a striking degree, the experts who answered “yes” – that new ways of teaching and learning will successfully emerge for job skills advancement – focused on how trainers, educators and employers will innovate new ways to implement and partner with technology to provide solutions that enhance outcomes. Many of the hopeful respondents predicted that […]

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    Methodology

    This project – using the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, as a case study model – examines the question of how media coverage of a current issue in the news relates to public interest in the issue and its relevance to their own lives.

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    Theme 4: Biases exist in algorithmically-organized systems

    There are two strands of thinking that tie together here. One is that the algorithm creators (code writers), even if they strive for inclusiveness, objectivity and neutrality, build into their creations their own perspectives and values. The other is that the datasets to which algorithms are applied have their own limits and deficiencies. Even datasets […]

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    Methodology

    This study examined anonymized cellphone audience behavioral data collected by the web analytics firm Parse.ly through the lens of engaged time spent with long- versus short-form news articles. The data stem from activity on a mix of general and niche websites that are clients of Parse.ly.[11. numoffset=”11″ Pew Research Center is a customer of Parse.ly, […]

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    Privacy and Information Sharing

    Many Americans say they might provide personal information in commercial settings, depending on the deal being offered and how much risk they face.

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    1. The state of privacy

    Americans frequently face choices about whether or not to share information about themselves in return for getting something that is potentially valuable to them. From retail stores that track customers’ shopping behavior in exchange for discounts to online applications that offer free services in exchange for serving personalized ads to users, Americans regularly face the […]

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    Americans’ Views About Data Collection and Security

    Contrary to assertions that people “don’t care” about privacy in the digital age, this survey suggests that Americans hold a range of strong views about the importance of control over their personal information and freedom from surveillance in daily life. As earlier studies in this series have illustrated, Americans’ perceptions of privacy are varied in […]

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