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    War in Gaza Quickly Shifts News

    A bloody new chapter in the Israel/Palestinian conflict dramatically shifted the news agenda from domestic to foreign crises, dominating media attention in an otherwise crowded week of news.

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    War in Gaza Casts Shadow over Transition

    The economic crisis showed few signs of easing, a scandal-plagued governor tried to anoint a Senator, and the incoming President moved to Washington. But last week, the guns of the Middle East dominated the news agenda.

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    Hispanic Women in the United States, 2007

    There are 30.1 million Hispanic adults in the United States and 14.4 million of them–or 48%–are women, according to recent U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    Overview of Methods The estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population presented in this report are derived with a residual methodology that compares the size of the total foreign-born population of the U.S. (legal and undocumented) with an independent, demographic estimate of the legally resident foreign-born population. The difference between the two is the estimated unauthorized […]

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    III. Economic Characteristics

    Labor Force A greater share of native-born Hispanic women than immigrant Hispanic women participate in the labor force. The majority of Hispanic women participate in the labor force; that is, they are either employed or actively seeking employment. Fully 59% of Hispanic women participate in the labor force, compared with 61% of non-Hispanic women. A […]

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    Acknowledgments and Methodology

    Acknowledgments On behalf of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the authors would like to acknowledge the contributions to this study by the following people: Alan Heaps and Sandra Riley of The College Board, Richard Sterling and Judy Buchanan of the National Writing Project, as well as the members of the Advisory Board to […]

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    III. A Self-Portrait

    Just over half of adult Americans consider themselves middle class. They are a varied lot. Asked to place themselves into one of five socioeconomic categories, just over half (53%) of adults in our survey describe themselves as middle class, a finding that has varied very little over many decades of social science survey research.[3. numoffset=”3″ […]

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    Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans

    Key West, Florida A voter at a New Hampshire polling station. Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2008 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy […]

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    Overall Methodology National projections are usually done with what is called the cohort-component model in which the initial population is carried forward into the future by adding new births, subtracting deaths, adding people moving into the country (immigrants), and subtracting people moving out (emigrants). The model used for the Pew projections is is a variant […]

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    Data we have and data we need

    Introduction This section discusses in greater detail some of the major datasets identified by the speakers and their limitations. Problems with these datasets fall into two principal categories: inappropriate and inconsistent definitions; and limitations, bias, and error arising from multiple sources. These problems result in misuse of terms and affect coverage, availability, and reliability of […]

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