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    Obama’s New Pitch Drives Health Care Coverage

    For the third straight week, the Obama Administration’s renewed efforts to pass a health care bill topped the news agenda while the U.S. economy followed in the No. 2 slot. Ex-Congressman Eric Massa’s weird cable TV tour also generated attention. And troubled Toyota found itself in the news again, albeit this time with somewhat more  sympathetic coverage.

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    Census 2010: The Database That Could

    As the 2010 Census lifts off, the Census Bureau is drawing attention to a complex database that will be a key element of its campaign to achieve a complete and accurate count of the U.S. population.

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    V. Economic Well-Being

    The economic well-being of any group of youths ages 16 to 25 depends in part on the economic status of the households in which they live and in part on their own personal engagement with the labor market. On both fronts, Latino youths lag well behind white youths. But they surpass black youths on most […]

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    Data Regarding Hispanics The analysis of Hispanics is based upon the merging of three datasets derived from landline telephone surveys conducted by International Communications Research: All three surveys used similar methodologies. Surveys were conducted by telephone, and targeted U.S. Latinos ages 18 and older, who had the option to respond in Spanish, English, or a […]

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    II. Internet Use

    Overall, 64% of Latino adults ages 18 and older used the internet in 2008, compared with 54% of Latinos in 2006.[5. numoffset=”5″ Results for 2006 differ from those reported in the 2007 Latinos Online report, because more survey datasets have been combined here, in order to increase sample size, and because “don’t know” and “refused” […]

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    VI. Education: The Gap Between Expectations and Achievement

    Latino schooling in the U.S. has long been characterized by high dropout rates and low college completion rates.[15. numoffset=”15″ Kewal Ramani, Gilbertson, Fox and Provasnik, 2007.] Both problems have moderated over time, and across generations, though a persistent educational attainment gap remains between Hispanics and non-Hispanics.[16. For more background, see the Pew Hispanic Center report […]

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    IV. Broadband Access

    In many surveys over the past seven years, the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that internet users with home broadband access are more engaged with the online world. The “always on” internet becomes an information and communications source that people rely on for staying in touch with friends and family and finding […]

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    Appendix B: 2009 National Survey of Latinos, Survey Methodology and Topline

    ABOUT THE SURVEY Results for this study are based on telephone interviews conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS), an independent research company, among a nationally representative sample of 2,012 Latino respondents ages 16 and older,[43. numoffset=”43″ Respondents younger than 18 were interviewed only with the permission of their parent or legal guardian.] from Aug. […]