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    Data Feed: Congress’s productivity, e-reading rises, alternative degree education

    A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers. Politics Congress might be more productive and less partisan than you think, Sunlight Foundation Our politics may be polarized, but that’s nothing new, The Washington Post Are Christie’s political plans bottlenecked? With topline, NBC News/ Marist Poll Ads attacking health […]

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    Changing Patterns of Global Migration and Remittances

    Patterns of global migration and remittances have shifted in recent decades, even as both the number of immigrants and the amount of money they send home have grown, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the United Nations and the World Bank.

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    Personal Wealth, Capital Investments and Philanthropy

    As advertising has shrunk in recent years and audience revenue has not fully closed the gap, another patchwork of investments has grown considerably–suggesting, perhaps, new models for funding the journalism of the future. Wealthy individuals have purchased or created new journalism outlets with personal funds. Companies initially built as technology firms have used their earnings […]

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    Data Migration data were released by the United Nations in September 2013. The data contain population counts for all possible destinations of international migrants for every origin country in the world (and vice versa, a population estimate for all origins of every destination country) in 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2013. Consequently, the data provide an […]

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    Data Feed: The future electoral map, smoking and children, optimism about New York’s mayor

    A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers. Politics What the U.S. electoral map may look like in 2060, The Washington Post Our politics is polarized on more issues than ever before, The Washington Post N.Y. optimistic about Mayor De Blasio; Poll on Bloomberg’s legacy out […]

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    References

    Beard, John R., Simon Biggs, David E. Bloom, Linda P. Fried, Paul Hogan, Alexandre Kalache and S. Jay Olshansky, eds. Global Population Ageing: Peril or Promise? Geneva: World Economic Forum (2011). Bloom, David E., David Canning and Günther Fink. “Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 16705 […]

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    Millennials in Adulthood

    Racially diverse, economically stressed and politically liberal, Millennials are building their own networks through social media – rather than through political parties, organized religion or marriage. Half now call themselves political independents, the highest share of any generation.

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    Unauthorized Immigration

    Slideshow of key findings from the report, “Population Decline of Unauthorized Immigrants Stalls, May Have Reversed”

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