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    Recession Turns a Graying Office Grayer

    The American work force is graying — and not just because the American population itself is graying. Older adults are staying in the labor force longer, and younger adults are staying out of it longer.

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    Health News Coverage in the U.S. Media, Early 2009

    Coverage of health news is on the rise according to an examination of media coverage from January to June 2009. Which health news topics generated the biggest headlines in 2009? What media sectors pay the most attention to health care? These questions and more are answered in a new study, produced by PEJ and the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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    End-of-Life Decisions: How Americans Cope

    While most Americans approve of laws that say treatment can be stopped if that’s what a terminally ill patient desires, they are split on what they would do personally in that situation.

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    But What Do the Polls Show?

    Perhaps the best way to think about public opinion and its relationship to politics and policymaking is that the American public is typically short on facts, but often long on judgment.

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    Health Care, Afghanistan Emerge as the Summer’s Big Stories

    The fight over health care legislation continued to dominate the news, but with a narrative twist that was tough on Barack Obama. And a crucial election kept the spotlight on Afghanistan, a conflict increasingly showing up in the headlines.

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    IV. Rock’s Rise

    Around the time of Woodstock, rock and roll wasn’t very popular. In a 1966 Harris Survey, it was near the very back of the pack among 11 musical styles tested.[5. numoffset=”5″ The styles tested in that survey were described as follows: show tunes; symphony and classical; folk; country; mood music; spirituals; rock and roll; rhythm […]

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    About the Survey

    Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,502 adults, 18 years of age or older, from June 10-14, 2009 (1,126 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 376 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 153 who had […]

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    Who’s Hispanic?

    The question of who’s Hispanic — and who isn’t — turns out to be pretty complicated.

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    About the Survey

    Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,502 adults, 18 years of age or older, from June 10-14, 2009 (1,126 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 376 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 153 who had […]

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    About the Survey

    Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,502 adults, 18 years of age or older, from June 10-14, 2009 (1,126 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 376 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 153 who had […]