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reportApr 27, 2009

Middle Class

Survey Details: Conducted January-February 2008 File Release Date: 27 April 2009
reportDec 10, 2009

The Millennials

Who are they? How are they different from –and similar to — their parents? How is their moment in history shaping them? And how might they, in turn, reshape America in the decades ahead?
reportJun 2, 2009

Public Backs Affirmative Action, But Not Minority Preferences

The public has generally been supportive of affirmative action programs, but is decidedly opposed to the idea of providing preferential treatment to minorities.
reportMar 26, 2009

II. How the Middle Class Defines Itself

“Middle class” is a term that is universally familiar but devilishly difficult to pin down. It is both a social and economic construct, and because these domains don’t always align, its borders are fuzzy. Is a $30,000-a-year resident in brain surgery lower class? Is a $100,000-a-year plumber upper-middle class? One way to sidestep riddles of […]
reportMar 26, 2009

V. The Middle Class Borrows More and Consumes More

One of the important changes in the economic life of the middle class over the past quarter century has been the extent to which it has engaged in higher levels of consumption and taken on a higher burden of debt. At least until the current recession, housing was the key driver of both trends. From […]
reportJul 2, 2009

The Deaths of Michael Jackson and “Neda” Grip the Blogosphere

The online community focused on two primary subjects last week – the passing of singer Michael Jackson and the continuing unrest in Iran. The reaction to the King of Pop’s death, along with stunning video of an Iranian woman referred to as “Neda,” demonstrated again not only the power of social media but the range of its use.
reportMar 26, 2009

III. The Middle Class Sees Short-Term Stagnation, Long Term Progress

Even before the current recession settled in, the American middle class felt stuck in its tracks. The Pew Research survey was conducted in January and February of 2008, during the early days of what was then a still-not-yet officially declared recession. Even so, a majority of self-identified middle class survey respondents said then that in […]
reportMar 26, 2009

Testimony of Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President, Pew Research Center to the Senate Finance Committee

Comments on a report that combines findings of one of our major national public opinion surveys with the Center’s analysis of four decades of demographic and economic trends from the Census Bureau and other sources.
reportMar 26, 2009

Before the Great Recession, a Phantom Recovery

The eight-year period from 1999 through 2007 is the longest in modern U.S. economic history in which inflation-adjusted median household income failed to surpass an earlier peak.
reportFeb 12, 2009

The Global Middle Class

Views on Democracy, Religion, Values, and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Nations

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