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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted June 5-8, 2014 among a national sample of 1,004 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (503respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 501were interviewed on a cell phone, including 301 who had no landline telephone). The […]

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    Section 3: Political Polarization and Personal Life

    Liberals and conservatives are divided over more than just politics. Those on the opposite ends of the ideological spectrum disagree about everything from the type of community in which they prefer to live to the type of people they would welcome into their families. It is an enduring stereotype – conservatives prefer suburban McMansions while […]

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    5 facts about the modern American family

    In 1960, 37% of households included a married couple raising their own children. More than a half-century later, just 16% of households look like that.

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    Chapter 3: How Do Stay-at-Home Dads Compare with Working Dads?

    Among all fathers who live with at least one of their children, stay-at-home fathers are less well-off financially than their working counterparts. About half (47%) of fathers at home are living in poverty, compared with just 8% of those working outside of the home. The poverty rate of stay-at-home fathers is even higher than that […]

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    How the most ideologically polarized Americans live different lives

    For America’s most ardent liberals and conservatives, polarization begins at home. In what may seem like stereotypes come to life, a new Pew Research Center study on political polarization finds that conservatives would rather live in large houses in small towns and rural areas — ideally among people of the same religious faith — while liberals opt […]

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    Bigger States & Longer Sessions Mean More Statehouse Reporters

    The number of journalists covering the statehouse varies dramatically from state to state, with some capitols filled with dozens of full-time reporters and others playing host to only two or three. What accounts for these differences in staffing? We looked at several factors that could conceivably be connected to the number of reporters assigned to […]