The many ways to measure economic inequality
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Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Just what is “economic inequality”? Depends on whom you ask.
There were 1.8 unemployed people per job opening in January, another indicator of the improving jobs situation.
The new GOP-controlled Congress takes office at a time when the American public sees partisan rifts in the country getting worse.
The speech also comes at a time when the American public has less of an appetite for foreign involvement and believes American clout is not what it used to be.
A new Global Morality Interactive, based on a survey conducted last year, shows how people in 40 countries view behaviors ranging from extramarital affairs to using contraceptives.
China and the U.S., the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, are among the least worried about climate change.
June 30 will mark one year since Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi took office, and the country’s opposition movement is planning to commemorate the anniversary with nationwide protests that, even by recent Egyptian standards, are likely to be quite large. Over the last year, Morsi has presided over growing political polarization and increasing disappointment with the […]
Americans have strongly favorable views of some allies and negative opinions about a range of others. Some of this is driven by U.S. partisan politics. And history suggests all such opinions are subject to change.
A summary of where Americans stand on ten key issues likely to come up in President Obama’s State of the Union address.
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