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    Latinos and the New Trump Administration

    Hispanics are divided about what a Donald Trump presidency means for their place in America, according to a Pew Research Center survey of Hispanic adults taken before his inauguration.

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    1. Growth in annual U.S. births since 1970 driven entirely by immigrant moms

    In 2014 more than 900,000 births in the U.S. were to foreign-born mothers. That marks a threefold increase from 1970, when 274,000 babies were born to immigrant mothers[10. numoffset=”10″ The focus throughout most of this report is on maternal characteristics, due in part to the dearth of data available regarding fertility from the father’s perspective. […]

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    1. Worries about information overload are not widespread

    The advent of new communications and information media – the book, the printing press, the telegraph, the radio, the television, the computer – are reliably accompanied by apprehensions about how to handle the flow of information. The ancients worried that the book would supplant the oral tradition of exchanging information and ideas among the elite. […]

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    Information Overload

    Most Americans like their choices in today’s information-saturated world. But 20% feel overloaded, and there are stresses for those with fewer pathways to the internet or who feel they are expected to do too much information gathering.

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    How Americans are talking about Trump’s election in 6 charts

    More than a month after the presidential election, Donald Trump’s victory and his plans for the presidency remain a topic of conversation for most – but not all – Americans. With the holidays approaching, 39% of U.S. adults say their families avoid conversations about politics. Following one of the most divisive campaigns in recent memory, here […]

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    1. Early public attitudes about Donald Trump

    Overall, 39% say they approve of how Trump is handling his job as president, while 56% say they disapprove and 6% do not offer a view. Job ratings for Trump are more negative than for other recent presidents at similar points in their first terms. By margins of more than two-to-one, larger shares of the […]

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    Methodology

    About the Pew Research Center’s Spring 2016 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey in India are based on face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The results are based on national samples, unless otherwise noted. More details about our international survey methodology and country-specific sample designs are available here. Detailed […]

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    2. Americans’ views about and consumption of organic foods

    Americans’ appetite for organic foods has grown steadily over the past few decades. According to the Economic Research Service, retail sales of organic foods more than doubled from 1994 to 2014 with a steady uptick of about 10% annual growth in retail sales over the past several years.[13. numoffset=”13″ Catherine Greene, Seth J. Wechsler, Aaron […]

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    2. Americans’ views about and consumption of organic foods

    Americans’ appetite for organic foods has grown steadily over the past few decades. According to the Economic Research Service, retail sales of organic foods more than doubled from 1994 to 2014 with a steady uptick of about 10% annual growth in retail sales over the past several years.[13. numoffset=”13″ Catherine Greene, Seth J. Wechsler, Aaron […]