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    Republicans More Optimistic than Democrats about Midterms

    Less than a year out from the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans are more optimistic than Democrats about their party’s electoral prospects. But the “expectations gap” is far more modest now than it was prior to the 2010 election, when Republicans were brimming with confidence, or 2006, when most Democrats anticipated a midterm victory.

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    Chapter 2: Views on the Morality of Suicide

    Views about physician-assisted suicide are, as expected, tied more broadly to beliefs about the morality of suicide. Such beliefs tend to vary depending on the circumstances considered. About six-in-ten adults (62%) believe a person has a moral right to end their own life if they are suffering great pain and have no hope of improvement. […]

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    Appendix 1: Survey Methodology

    Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted October 7-27, 2013 among a national sample of 2,002 adults 18 years of age or older living in the United States (a total of 479 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,523 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 929 who had no […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted November 14-17, 2013 among a national sample of 1,013 adults, 18 years of age or older, living the continental United States (507 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 506 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 260 who had no landline telephone). The […]

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    Chapter 3: Finances, Social Trends and Technology

    Economic optimism Coming of age during the country’s deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression has made it much more difficult for Millennials to find their financial footing. And they are still dealing with the fallout from the recession and sluggish recovery. The unemployment rate remains high for this generation—especially those ages 18 to 24, […]

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    Chart of the Week: Race, ethnicity and local government jobs

    The Chart of the Week illustrates that whites continue to be overrepresented among high-earning local government jobs, long a source for upward social mobility, but the workforces have become more diversified over the past five decades.

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    Digital Life in 2025

    Experts predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good and ill

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    Race in America: Tracking 50 Years of Demographic Trends

    Explore the areas where the white-black racial gap has narrowed, widened or remained roughly the same, based on data from U.S. government sources over the past several decades. Hispanic and Asian data is also included in years available.

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    Black incomes are up, but wealth isn’t

    Although household-income growth for African-Americans has outpaced that of whites since the 1960s, those gains haven’t led to any narrowing of the wealth gap between the races.