---
title: "Data Feed: Partisanship, Obama, winter storms"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers. Politics Poll: Obama approval, minimum wage, jobless benefits, Quinnipiac “National thermometer” for 2016 presidential contenders available 12 PM, Quinnipiac American politics more competitive than ever, making partisanship worse, The Washington Post Are red or blue companies more likely […]"
date: "2014-01-09"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/01/09/data-feed-partisanship-obama-winter-storms/"
---

# Data Feed: Partisanship, Obama, winter storms

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

**Politics** [Poll: Obama approval, minimum wage, jobless benefits](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1993), Quinnipiac “National thermometer” for 2016 presidential contenders [available 12 PM](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/), Quinnipiac [American politics more competitive than ever, making partisanship worse](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/01/09/american-politics-is-more-competitive-than-ever-thats-making-partisanship-worse/), The Washington Post [Are red or blue companies more likely to go green?](http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/blue-state-firms-are-harmed-by-their-greater-spending-on-social-responsibility/) Harvard Business Review [Great news for Obamacare: Americans are bored with it](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/great-news-for-obamacare-americans-are-bored-with-it/), The Washington Post

**Economics** [Which economies will grow fastest in 2014?](http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/01/daily-chart-3) The Economist [Interactive: The future of coal](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303848104579308742594348668), The Wall Street Journal [Post-crash rebound, not job growth, drove 2013 housing price gains](http://trends.truliablog.com/2014/01/price-and-rent-monitors-dec-2013/), Trulia [Per capita income by cities compared with U.S.](http://www.urbanophile.com/2014/01/09/more-fun-with-per-capita-incomes/), Urbanophile [Losses caused by winter storms](http://www.iii.org/facts_statistics/winter-storms.html), Insurance Information Institute [Demographic snapshot of disconnected low-income men](http://www.urban.org/publications/412989.html), Urban Institute [U.S. payroll to population rate falls to 42.9% in December](http://www.gallup.com/poll/166775/payroll-population-rate-falls-december.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines), Gallup [Low-paying fields hold jobs of future, mostly](http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/01/09/which-fields-hold-the-jobs-of-the-future-the-low-paying-ones-mostly/), The Wall Street Journal

**Science & Technology** [The evolution of memes on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/the-evolution-of-memes-on-facebook/10151988334203859), Facebook Data Science [In OECD, wireless broadband penetration has grown to 68.4%](http://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/broadband-statistics-update.htm), OECD

**International****** [Meat atlas shows Latin America has become a soybean empire](http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jan/09/meat-atlas-latin-america-soybean-empire-food), Guardian [Rising unemployment for UK’s ethnic minorities: Who’s affected?](http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jan/08/rising-unemployment-for-uk-ethnic-minorities-race-whos-affected) Guardian [China’s verified GDP in 2012](http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/201401/t20140109_497453.html), Dec. 2013 [PPI](http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/201401/t20140109_497491.html) and [CPI](http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/201401/t20140109_497457.html), National Bureau of Statistics of China [OECD annual inflation picks up to 1.5% in November 2013](http://www.oecd.org/std/prices-ppp/consumerpricesoecd-updated9january2014.htm), OECD

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