Minorities Account for Nearly All U.S. Population Growth
Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7% of the nation’s population growth over the past decade.
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Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7% of the nation’s population growth over the past decade.
The sweeping changes in family structure that have occurred roughly over the past 50 years have split the public into three roughly equal groups: Accepters, Rejecters and Skeptics.
Being a good father is ranked as the most important trait of a good husband/partner by nearly everyone.
Seven-in-ten say the trend toward more single women having children is bad for society, and 61% say that a child needs both a mother and father to grow up happily.
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Among Americans who have ever lived with an unmarried partner, nearly two-thirds say they thought about it as a step toward marriage.
Race-related themes were present in 9% of all Obama administration news coverage from early 2009 to early 2010.
Six-in-ten Latinos say discrimination against Hispanics is a “major problem.”
Only three of the top 10 election newsmaker candidates were voted into office in Tuesday’s election.
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