Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
In an era of head-snapping racial, social, cultural, economic, religious, gender, generational and technological change, Americans have been sorting themselves into think-alike communities that reflect not only their politics but their demographics.
To analyze the content of congressional outreach, researchers gathered a comprehensive set of Facebook posts and press releases issued by offices of members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives between Jan. 1, 2015, and April 30, 2016. Facebook posts were obtained from the legislators’ official pages (via API) and press releases were collected […]
On the occasion of President Obama’s last State of the Union address, a look back at his first congressional address – his priorities, those of the public at the time and what’s happened in the years since.
The scientific and ethical dimensions of striving for perfection
Despite broad concerns about cyberattacks, outages and privacy violations, most experts believe the Internet of Things will continue to expand successfully the next few years.
The scientific and ethical dimensions of striving for perfection
The attitudes of Republicans living in House Freedom Caucus members’ districts look very similar to those in other Republican-represented districts.
As a whole, Latin America enjoyed solid economic growth in the first decade of this century, with a fall in poverty, a decrease in income inequality and a rise of its middle class.
On a global scale, the vast majority of Americans are either upper-middle income or high income. And many Americans who are classified as “poor” by the U.S. government would be middle income globally.
The first decade of this century witnessed an historic reduction in global poverty and a near doubling of the number of people who could be considered middle income. But the emergence of a truly global middle class is still far from fruition.
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