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    4. The job market and young adult living arrangements

    This section examines the labor market fortunes of young adult men and women and the role the job market may play in understanding the trends in living with parents. The decennial census has consistently inquired about employment status since 1930, and for 18- to 34-year-old men there is a clear-cut pattern between their labor market […]

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    4. Asylum seeker demography: Young and male

    Since 2013, the demographic profile of asylum seekers in the EU-28, Norway and Switzerland has become slightly more male (67% in 2013, 71% in 2014 and 73% in 2015), with a steady share of asylum seekers arriving under 35 years of age (80% in 2013 and in 2014, 83% in 2015). Among all asylum seekers […]

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    2. Living with mom and/or dad: More common for sons than daughters

    The rise in the share of young adults living with their parents since 1960 has occurred for both men and women and across all major racial and ethnic groups. Generally, throughout the past 135 years young men have been more likely than young women to be living in the home of their parent(s). For both […]

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    1. Voters’ general election preferences

    Currently, 41% of registered voters say they would vote for Hillary Clinton if the general election were held today, while 37% say they would vote for Donald Trump, 10% say they would vote for Gary Johnson and 4% say they would vote for Jill Stein. Differences in support across demographic groups are largely consistent with […]

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    1. How is India doing?

    A growing number of Indians, roughly two-thirds (65%), are satisfied with the way things are going in their country. Such satisfaction is up 9 percentage points since 2015 and 29 points since 2014, in a survey taken before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power. In 2013, the last year of […]

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    1. South Africans worried about crime and corruption, prioritize education

    More than a year after the United Nations adopted 17 global objectives for development, known as the Sustainable Development Goals, South Africa is facing increasingly serious hurdles to achieving some of those key targets. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has projected that the country’s economy will weaken even further this year from […]

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    India and Modi: The Honeymoon Continues

    The Indian public sees Prime Minister Narendra Modi favorably and India’s role in the world expanding, but there is a growing partisan divide on Modi’s record.

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    6. Hispanic voters and the 2016 election

    Hillary Clinton currently has a 66%-24% advantage over Donald Trump among Hispanic registered voters. In a three-way test, including Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson, 58% of Latino voters support Clinton, 20% support Trump and 13% back Johnson. At a somewhat later point in the campaign four years ago, Barack Obama’s lead over Mitt Romney among […]