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title: "Data Feed: Poverty, marijuana, jobs for college grads"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers. Politics How we estimated an election’s outcome before all the votes were counted, Huffington Post How fed nominations have played out in Senate, The Wall Street Journal What inferences can/ can’t be drawn from the “Republican shift”? Cultural […]"
date: "2014-01-07"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/01/07/data-feed-poverty-marijuana-jobs-for-college-grads/"
---

# Data Feed: Poverty, marijuana, jobs for college grads

*A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.*

**Politics** [How we estimated an election’s outcome before all the votes were counted](http://huffpostdata.tumblr.com/post/72449661244/how-we-estimated-an-elections-outcome-before-all-the), Huffington Post [How fed nominations have played out in Senate](http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/01/06/how-fed-nominations-have-played-out-in-senate/tab/interactive/), The Wall Street Journal [What inferences can/ can’t be drawn from the “Republican shift”?](http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2014/1/6/what-sorts-of-inferences-cancant-be-drawn-from-the-republica.html) Cultural Cognition Project [Poll: Support for legal marijuana soaring](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/06/cnn-poll-support-for-legal-marijuana-soaring/), with [topline](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/images/01/06/cnn.orc.poll.marijuana.pdf), CNN/ ORC International survey

**Economy** [Chart book: The war on poverty at 50](http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=4069), Center on Budget and Policy Priorities [Are older Americans “winning” the war on poverty?](http://blog.metrotrends.org/2014/01/older-americans-winning-war-poverty/) Urban Institute’s MetroTrends Blog [Economic confidence improved again in December](http://www.gallup.com/poll/166754/economic-confidence-improved-again-december.aspx), Gallup [Drivers of mortgage choices by risky borrowers](http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2014/january/factors-lower-credit-rating-borrowers-adjustable-rate-mortgage/), Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco [Getting married makes female economists poorer, males richer](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/06/getting-married-makes-female-economists-poorer-and-male-economists-richer/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein&clsrd), The Washington Post [Metropolitan area employment, November 2013](http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.nr0.htm), Bureau of Labor Statistics [Decline seen in consumer credit civil lawsuits](http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/civil/337/), TRAC Syracuse [Euro area annual inflation down to 0.8%](http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/2-07012014-AP/EN/2-07012014-AP-EN.PDF); Eurostat

**Employment** [Employment to fall for people under 55, rise for older groups](http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20140106.htm), Bureau of Labor Statistics [Analyzing the labor market for college graduates](http://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2014/rp140106.html), Federal Reserve Bank of New York [Interactive: Top states for job creation in 2014](http://www.pewstates.org/research/data-visualizations/top-states-for-job-creation-in-2014-85899531089), Pew Charitable Trusts

**Science & Technology****** [Americans’ tech tastes change with times](http://www.gallup.com/poll/166745/americans-tech-tastes-change-times.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines), Gallup

**Health** [Medical debt among people with health insurance](http://kff.org/private-insurance/report/medical-debt-among-people-with-health-insurance/), Kaiser Family Foundation [Impact of Affordable Care Act on coverage of people with HIV](http://kff.org/hivaids/issue-brief/assessing-the-impact-of-the-affordable-care-act-on-health-insurance-coverage-of-people-with-hiv/), Kaiser Family Foundation [Medicaid: Use of claims data for provider payment rates](http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/659998.pdf), GAO [Detailed report delivers good news on health costs, but will it last?](http://capsules.kaiserhealthnews.org/index.php/2014/01/detailed-report-delivers-good-news-on-health-costs-but-will-it-last/) Kaiser Health News

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