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    AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs

    Experts envision automation and intelligent digital agents permeating vast areas of our work and personal lives by 2025, but they are divided on whether these advances will displace more jobs than they create.

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    Chapter Two: Usage and Attitudes Toward Smartphones

    Smartphones often serve as a go-to source for staying informed about breaking news and community happenings, getting from place to place, conducting transactions, and navigating life events such as finding a new job or getting information about a health condition. This chapter of the report looks in more detail at the specific activities that smartphone […]

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    The Changing Profile of Student Borrowers

    In 2012, a record 69% of the nation’s new college graduates had taken out student loans to finance their education. Graduates from more affluent families are much more likely to borrow today than 20 years ago.

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    Trends in Amounts Borrowed

    Among graduates of the class of 2011-12, the typical student borrower owed about $26,900 in student debt. This is roughly double the amount owed by the typical borrower from the class of 1992-93 ($12,400). Unlike the clear patterns for borrowing rates, the increase in the median amounts borrowed by graduates has been fairly uniform across […]

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    Who’s Borrowing?

    In looking at student debt, two measures of a college graduate’s family affluence are typically considered: family income and parents’ educational attainment (Ellwood and Kane, 2000). The income analysis focuses on college graduates who were dependent on their parents for financial support and looks at the income of a graduate’s parents in the year before […]

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    Above-and-Beyond Responses: Part 1

    A variety of views in regard to this issue are reflected in these big thinkers’ imaginings of what may happen by 2025. ‘Social punishment may have to be accompanied by legislation’ Vint Cerf, Google vice president and chief Internet evangelist, responded, “The public will become more sophisticated about security and safety. Corporations and service providers […]

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    Typology Detailed Tables

    Figures read down within each category. Don’t know responses not shown. For full question wording, see topline. Return to the main report. Solid Liberals Faith and Family Left Next Generation Left Hard-Pressed Skeptics Young Outsiders Business Conservatives Steadfast Conservatives Bystanders SEX Men 44 45 49 42 48 62 59 47 Women 56 55 51 58 52 […]

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    Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology

    Our latest political typology sorts voters into cohesive groups based on their attitudes and values and provides a field guide for the constantly changing political landscape.

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    Chapter 3: Finances, Social Trends and Technology

    Economic optimism Coming of age during the country’s deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression has made it much more difficult for Millennials to find their financial footing. And they are still dealing with the fallout from the recession and sluggish recovery. The unemployment rate remains high for this generation—especially those ages 18 to 24, […]

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