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    II. Introduction

    For more than three centuries, the politics, social structure and economic development of the South have been powerfully shaped by the interplay of whites and blacks. That has begun to change, with the arrival of a third group, Hispanics. Once a sparse presence in the South, Latinos are now a fast-growing and increasingly visible player […]

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    Questions and Data

    January 2005 Daily Tracking Survey Final Topline, 2/11/05 Data for January 13 – February 9, 2005 Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Internet & American Life Project Sample: n = 2,201 adults 18 and older Interviewing dates: 01.13.05 – 02.09.05 Margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points for results based […]

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    The Right to Assisted Suicide?: Oregon Goes to the Supreme Court

    Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. Oregon has twice, by ballot initiative, adopted a measure allowing for physician-assisted suicide. The measure, known as the “Death With Dignity Act,” raises serious moral and ethical questions, and was challenged by the U.S. Department of Justice. The Department contended that it had the right to invalidate the law, […]

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    V. Changes in Employment by Industry

    The construction industry continued to lean on foreign-born Latinos to fill its need for workers in 2004. These workers presently make up almost 20 percent of the construction work force. Immigrant Latinos added 226,000 workers to the construction industry payroll in 2004 (Table 3). That amounted to 40 percent of the total growth in employment […]

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    American Evangelicals and Israel

    Recent surveys by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life demonstrate that American evangelical Protestants have distinctive – and highly positive – attitudes towards the state of Israel. This group is important both because it constitutes a large share of the American population – about 26% – and because it provided President George W. […]

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    Chapter 1. Image of the United States

    Even though the image of the United States has improved slightly in some parts of the world over the past year, this country’s global approval ratings trail well behind those of other leading nations. When the publics of the 16 nations covered by the survey were asked to give favorability ratings of five major leading […]

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    Questions and Methodology

    Question language Asked of all respondents   IPOD01    Do you have an iPod or other MP3 player that stores and plays music files, or do you not have one of these? IPOD02  Have you ever downloaded a podcast or internet radio program so you could listen to it on your digital audio player at a […]

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    VIII. Wage Growth in 2004

    The rapid growth in Hispanic employment appears to have come at the price of lower wages. Contributing to this trend is their concentration in specific segments of the labor market, in particular, the lower-skill occupations. Consequently, real wages for Hispanic workers declined for the second consecutive year in 2004. The cumulative decline over the past […]

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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 International among a nationwide sample of 1,505 adults, 18 years of age or older, from March 17-21, 2005. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling […]

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    Search Engine Users

    Internet users are very happy with their experiences searching the internet, but many are naive about how they search and the results they find.