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    Make Calls Online

    Nearly a quarter of internet-using adults have placed a phone call online.

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    Public Wants a Debt Ceiling Compromise, Expects a Deal Before Deadline

    Overview The public overwhelmingly favors a compromise in the debt ceiling standoff. And even as negotiations aimed at resolving the issue show little progress, a majority thinks that Barack Obama and congressional Republicans will reach a deal before the Aug. 2 deadline on a possible government default. Fully 68% say that lawmakers who share their […]

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    Chapter 7: Trends in Household Wealth, 1984 to 2009

    Estimates of household wealth by race and ethnicity from SIPP are available starting in 1984. The time series is not entirely consistent because of a redesign of the SIPP panel in 1996 and changes to the racial identity question in 2004.[18. numoffset=”18″ See Orzechowski and Sepielli (2003) for more on the SIPP redesign. The racial […]

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    Survey Methods

    The survey in Japan is part of the larger Spring 2011 Pew Global Attitudes survey conducted in 22 countries and the Palestinian territories under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Results for the survey in Japan are based on 700 landline telephone interviews of adults conducted April 8 to April 27. Between May […]

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    Public Now Divided on Debt Limit Debate

    As the debate over the nation’s debt and deficit continues, the public has grown more concerned that failing to raise the debt limit would force the government into default and hurt the economy. Despite this change, however, about as many Americans are concerned by the consequences of raising the nation’s debt limit as by the […]

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    Hacking Scandal Tops Twitter for a Second Week

    Twitter users continued to voice their displeasure at Rupert Murdoch last week, and a discussion of the scandal affecting his company was among the top videos on YouTube. On blogs, the No. 1 story was about the federal government’s ruling that marijuana has no accepted medical use.

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    Appendix

    Data Sources The net worth and asset ownership levels are tabulated from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation. SIPP is a longitudinal survey designed to follow a given panel of households over several years. The panels are nationally representative samples of the civilian, non-institutionalized population of the United States and are […]

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    From Tripoli to the East Coast, a Week of Big Events

    There were no late summer news doldrums last week as the apparent conclusion of a civil war and a pair of natural disasters topped the news. The rebel takeover of Libya generated the biggest week of attention to that conflict in five months while an earthquake and a hurricane brought the media focus back to the Northeast United States.

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    About the News Interest Index

    The News Interest Index is a weekly survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press aimed at gauging the public’s interest in and reaction to major news events. This project has been undertaken in conjunction with the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s News Coverage Index, an ongoing content analysis of […]