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    V. Changes in Occupational Distributions and Status between 1990 and 2000

    The occupational divide across Hispanics and whites grew wider between 1990 and 2000. That is perhaps surprising in light of the record economic expansion that lasted virtually the entire decade. However, restructuring within and across industries tended to fuel demand for Hispanic and non-Hispanic workers in a differential manner and they trended into different occupation […]

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    What Is the Internet Doing to Relationships?

    Does the internet degrade friendship, kinship, civic involvement, and social capital? One of the great debates about the internet is what it is doing to the relationships that Americans have with friends, relatives, neighbors, and workmates. On the one hand, many extol the internet’s abilities to extend our relationships — we can contact people across […]

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    How Women and Men Use the Internet

    Men continue to pursue many internet activities more intensively than women. At the same time, trend data show that women are catching up in overall use and are framing their online experience with a greater emphasis on deepening connections with peo…

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    The Occupational Status and Mobility of Hispanics

    Hispanics and whites perform different types of work in the labor market. Moreover, the occupational divide between the two largest segments of the labor force appears to be widening.

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    Aiming at Younger Audiences

    New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? Aiming at Younger Audiences A major aspect of new free tabloids, according to their own descriptions, was their orientation toward youth. Newspaper readership, like much news consumption, skews old. The average age of a newspaper reader is 53, according […]

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    Moved by the Spirit: Pentecostal Power & Politics after 100 Years

    University of Southern California Los Angeles, California April 2006 marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles, an event that is often cited as the birth of modern pentecostalism. Since then, pentecostalism has emerged as one of the fastest-growing Christian movements in the world. Nowhere is this more […]

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    VII. The Occupational Mobility of College-Educated Hispanics

    A college degree opens the doors to higher levels of occupational attainment for Hispanics both in absolute terms and relative to the attainment of whites. Among immigrants, a college degree appears to be strongly related with the possibility of reaching parity in occupational status with whites. Consistent with the findings in the preceding section, results […]

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    Putting Technology to Work

    Experimenting with the Web in times of crisis Local media opens neighborhood forums The New Orleans Times-Picayune Web site started forums for all neighborhoods, where people post information on the status of the flood and try to connect with lost relatives and friends. The Sun Herald in South Mississippi has a guestbook for remembering victims […]