Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Pew Research Center Ten years ago, the U.S. Congress launched a debate on U.S. international religious freedom policy that ultimately resulted in the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. Foreign policy actors continue to debate how religious freedom – and religion itself – should be factored into U.S. foreign policy. Has the State Department interpreted […]
In 1955, as the early baby boomers entered elementary school, the nation’s public school enrollment stood at 30.7 million. Sixteen years later, it peaked at 46.1 million. Then, as the boomers delayed or deferred childbearing, the school-age population began to decline, bottoming out at 39.2 million in 1984. The enrollment numbers would have changed relatively […]
Summary of Findings With less than two weeks to go before the midterm elections, the Democrats not only continue to maintain a double-digit advantage nationally, but also lead by the same margin in the competitive districts that will determine which party controls the House of Representatives. Nationally, the Democrats hold a 49%-38% lead among registered […]
Prediction and Reactions Prediction: By 2020, intelligent agents and distributed control will cut direct human input so completely out of some key activities such as surveillance, security and tracking systems that technology beyond our control will generate dangers and dependencies that will not be recognized until it is impossible to reverse them. We will be […]