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    Bush Failing in Social Security Push

    Summary of Findings President George W. Bush is losing ground with the public in his efforts to build support for private retirement accounts in Social Security. Despite Bush’s intensive campaign to promote the idea, the percentage of Americans who say they favor private accounts has tumbled to 46% in Pew’s latest nationwide survey, down from […]

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    Islam and Democratization in the Middle East

    Los Angeles, California The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pacific Council on International Policy co-hosted a meeting on “Islam and Democratization in the Middle East” on April 27, 2005, at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. The roundtable featured one of Egypt’s foremost human rights activists, Saad Eddin […]

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    Acknowledgments

    About the Pew Internet & American Life Project: The Pew Internet Project is a nonprofit, non-partisan initiative of the Pew Research Center. The Project is a think tank that explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care, and civic/political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative […]

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    State of the News Media 2005: Radio

    Most media analysis tends to focus on seismic shifts. Plummeting viewership. Skyrocketing profit margins. Grand scandals. Declining public trust. Radio is interesting in part because it tends to defy such characterizations. Its struggles and transformations usually occur just below the surface. Change is based on gradual progression, and, if we were to watch only the numbers, 2004 would be viewed as a year of seeming, even dull, stability.

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    III. The Role of Social Security for Older Hispanics

    This section considers the extent to which Hispanics age 65 or older receive Social Security benefits and at what levels they receive them. Relatively fewer Hispanics than whites or blacks receive income from Social Security, and their levels of benefits are also lower on average. However, Social Security is a more important source of income […]

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    Part 5. Is users’ trust in search engines blind?

    How searchers feel about issues related to paid and unpaid search results. In the last few years, a few new ingredients have been introduced into the ways search engines select and present their search results to users. These have become a source of controversy within the search industry, despite going largely unnoticed by users. The […]

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    Online Banking 2005

    Fifty-three million American adults, or 44% of internet users and one-quarter of all adults, now say they use online banking.

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    Part 4. The searcher and his search engine

    Only some searchers rely on search engines. A recent  study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that while growing numbers of internet users conduct an increasing variety of activities online, from looking up phone numbers to buying tickets to getting the news, they are not integrating their internet use into their everyday […]

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

    WASHINGTON, JANUARY 23 — A new nationwide survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that internet users are extremely positive about search engines and the experiences they have when searching the internet. But these same satisfied internet users are generally unsophisticated about why and how they use search engines. They are also […]