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    Appendix: Descriptions of the Week’s Major Storylines for Each City

    While conducting detailed analysis of the local news for each of the three cities, Pew Research also tracked the major issues that were covered during the weeks examined. In both Denver (June 16-20, 2014) and Macon (June 9-13, 2014), no specific themes dominated the news agenda. In particular, no single storyline accounted for more than […]

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    Table 4.4 Immigration

    These questions are discussed in Section 4 of the report. Immigrants eligible for citizenship Immigrants not eligible for citizenship TOTAL Total % 76 Right away % 20 Only after period of time % 54 Total % 23 No nat’l effort to deport % 5 Nat’l effort to deport % 17 (N)3341 PARTY WITH LEANERS Rep/Rep lean 66 […]

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    Chapter 4: The Jobs Recovery for All Foreign-born and All U.S.-born Workers

    Immigrants overall, Hispanic and non-Hispanic combined, assumed a greater share of the U.S. workforce and employment in 2013 than they did in 2007. That is because the ongoing inflow of non-Hispanic immigrants was sufficient to compensate for the reduced inflow of Hispanic immigrants. But since the recession started in 2007, both foreign-born and U.S.-born workers […]

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    1-in-10 Americans don’t give a hoot about politics

    As Republicans and Democrats gear up for midterm elections this November, there’s one group of Americans – that we call political Bystanders – that is paying very little, if any, attention to the whole ordeal.

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    Chapter 2: The Jobs Recovery for Hispanics

    By one measure, Hispanic workers have fared well in the recovery. The number of Hispanics with jobs increased from 20 million in the fourth quarter of 2009 to 22.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2013. The increase more than made up for the 0.4 million jobs lost by Hispanics during the recession. However, the […]

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    Chapter 3: The Jobs Recovery for Non-Hispanics

    Jobs growth for non-Hispanics has been relatively slow in the economic recovery. After losing 7.4 million jobs in the recession from 2007 to 2009, non-Hispanics gained only 3.6 million jobs during the recovery from 2009 to 2013. Thus, employment for non-Hispanics in the fourth quarter of 2013—121.8 million—was nearly 4 million less than the 125.6 […]