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    Latino Labor Report, 2004

    Hispanic workers enjoyed significant gains in employment in 2004. But the concentration of Latinos in relatively low-skill occupations contributed to reduced earnings for them for the second year in a row.

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    IX. Conclusions

    Employment growth, which first showed signs of recovery in 2003, maintained its momentum in 2004 as the economy added 2.5 million new jobs. Hispanic workers secured 1 million of the new jobs while the remainder went to non-Hispanic workers. Almost all of the increase in Hispanic employment was accounted for by newly arrived immigrants. The […]

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    Chapter 1. Image of the United States

    Even though the image of the United States has improved slightly in some parts of the world over the past year, this country’s global approval ratings trail well behind those of other leading nations. When the publics of the 16 nations covered by the survey were asked to give favorability ratings of five major leading […]

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    Profiles of the Typology Groups

    ENTERPRISERS PAST TYPOLOGY COUNTERPART: Staunch Conservatives, Enterprisers 9% OF ADULT POPULATION 10% OF REGISTERED VOTERS PARTY ID: 81% Republican, 18% Independent/No Preference, 1% Democrat (98% Rep/Lean Rep) BASIC DESCRIPTION: As in 1994 and 1999, this extremely partisan Republican group’s politics are driven by a belief in the free enterprise system and social values that reflect […]

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    VI. Employment Change in Occupations Grouped by Education Clusters

    An analysis of changes in employment by occupation shows that Latino and non-Latino workers were moving on different paths in the labor market in 2004. While the two groups of workers tended to gain and lose jobs in the same industries, there is a considerable gap in the kinds of work in which they are […]

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    The Biology Wars: The Religion, Science and Education Controversy

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in December 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker Edward J. Larson, Talmadge Chair of Law and Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia, discussed the history of […]

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    V. Changes in Employment by Industry

    The construction industry continued to lean on foreign-born Latinos to fill its need for workers in 2004. These workers presently make up almost 20 percent of the construction work force. Immigrant Latinos added 226,000 workers to the construction industry payroll in 2004 (Table 3). That amounted to 40 percent of the total growth in employment […]

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    Beyond Red vs. Blue

    Part 1: Principal Findings Coming out of the 2004 election, the American political landscape decidedly favored the Republican Party. The GOP had extensive appeal among a disparate group of voters in the middle of the electorate, drew extraordinary loyalty from its own varied constituencies, and made some inroads among conservative Democrats. These advantages outweighed continued […]

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    Part 2: The Political Typology

    The 2005 Political Typology is the fourth of its kind, following on previous studies in 1987, 1994 and 1999. While the mood of the American electorate has changed markedly over this period, underlying patterns persist. Many characteristics of the groups identified by the current survey, in particular the ideological positions of Enterprisers, Liberals, and Disadvantaged […]