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    The Next America

    America is in the midst of two major changes to its population: We are becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. Explore these shifts in our new interactive data essay.

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    2. Changing Composition of Federal Convictions

    The number of convictions in federal courts nearly doubled over the past two decades, from 36,564 to a record 77,506 in 2011, then falling to 75,867 in 2012.[11. numoffset=”11″ These totals are only of cases for which the offense of conviction is known. In 1992, there were 1,694 cases with missing information on the offense […]

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    Chapter 1: The Likelihood of Being a Stay-at-Home Father

    In 2012, two million fathers were living with at least one of their children less than 18 years of age, and had not been employed outside of the home for a year or more. This marked a 90% increase in the number of stay-at-home fathers since 1989, when 1.1 million fathers were at home with […]

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    Chapter 5: The ‘Ethnic Church’

    One of the major findings of the 2006 National Survey of Latinos and Religion was that a large proportion of Latinos were attending churches with services in Spanish, Latino clergy and heavily Latino congregations. The new Pew Research survey also finds that a large share of Latinos attend churches with these “ethnic church” characteristics, but […]

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    Political Polarization in the American Public

    Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines – and partisan acrimony is deeper and more extensive – than at any point in recent history. And these trends manifest themselves in myriad ways, both in politics and in everyday life.

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    Which party is more to blame for political polarization? It depends on the measure

    Our report on political polarization in America has renewed debate among journalists and academics over what is called “asymmetrical polarization” – the idea that one party has moved further ideologically than the other. A number of congressional scholars have concluded that the widening partisan gap in Congress is attributable mostly to a rightward shift among […]

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    Americans split on deportations as Latinos press Obama on issue

    The White House is under pressure from Democrats and Latino leaders to ease deportations, as the number of unauthorized immigrants sent home neared 2 million under the Obama administration. Last week, National Council of La Raza President Janet Murguía called the president the “deporter-in-chief.”

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    References

    Lopez, Mark Hugo and Michael Light. 2009. “A Rising Share: Hispanics and Federal Crime.” Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, February. Mallik-Kane, Kamala, Barbara Parthasarathy and William Adams. 2012. “Examining Growth in the Federal Prison Population, 1998-2010.” Washington, DC: Urban Institute, September. Meissner, Doris, Donald M. Kerwin, Muzaffar Chishti, and Claire Bergeron. 2013. “Immigration Enforcement in […]

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