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    Spirit Wars: American Religion in Progressive Politics

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in December 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker Leigh Eric Schmidt, a professor of religion at Princeton University and author of several books on the history of religion in American […]

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    Appendix A. Race Group Definitions

    The concepts and methods used to measure race changed between the Current Population Surveys (CPS) of November 2000 and November 2004. While these changes have no impact on the definition and measurement of the Hispanic population, they do affect the comparability of the non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and other non-Hispanic populations between 2000 and 2004. […]

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    II. The Growth of the Hispanic Population and Its Voting Strength

    Between the 2000 and 2004 elections the Hispanic population grew by 5.7 million persons accounting for half of the increase in the U.S. population of 11.5 million. However, nearly two-thirds (63%) of the people added to the Latino population were not eligible to vote in 2004 either because they were too young or because they […]

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    VIII. Immigration Measures from the Census, ACS and CPS

    Our goal of measuring trends and patterns in annual immigration—specifically in the number of foreign-born persons coming to the United States in a given year with the intention of living in the country—and its characteristics thus requires expansion of the data and methods brought to bear on the problem. In assessing immigration levels and trends, […]

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    IV. Changes in Employment by Nativity and Period of Arrival

    The demand for immigrant labor remains robust and foreign-born workers were a major component of change in the labor market in 2004. Those who entered the U.S. between 2000 and 2004 were significant contributors to labor force and employment growth, especially among Hispanics. In contrast with recent years, native-born workers also shared in the job […]

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    Believing Without Belonging: Just How Secular Is Europe?

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in December 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker Grace Davie, who has a chair in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Exeter and is the director of the […]

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    V. Changes in Employment by Industry

    The construction industry continued to lean on foreign-born Latinos to fill its need for workers in 2004. These workers presently make up almost 20 percent of the construction work force. Immigrant Latinos added 226,000 workers to the construction industry payroll in 2004 (Table 3). That amounted to 40 percent of the total growth in employment […]

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    VII. The Occupational Concentration of Hispanic Workers

    The preceding sections have made clear that newly arrived immigrants played a major role in the growth of the labor force and the number employed in 2004. It was also shown that Hispanic workers, the majority of whom are foreign-born, are grouped into relatively low-skill occupations with limited education requirements. But what specifically are these […]

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    VI. Employment Change in Occupations Grouped by Education Clusters

    An analysis of changes in employment by occupation shows that Latino and non-Latino workers were moving on different paths in the labor market in 2004. While the two groups of workers tended to gain and lose jobs in the same industries, there is a considerable gap in the kinds of work in which they are […]